[Mailman-Users] Apologies

[Jim Kutter]

Ironically enough it's RedHat 6.2. I've found Solaris 7 and 8 to be very reliable (and they feel very similar to Linux setups too), but that was at another organization where I had the luxury to build and configure the Solaris machines myself.

-jim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Ward" <gward at mems-exchange.org>
To: "Jim Kutter" <webmaster at ebizq.net>
Cc: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Apologies


> On 04 October 2001, Jim Kutter said:
> > I certainly have egg on my face. The most obvious solution is always
> > the answer. The solution to my earlier problems was quite simply this
> > and nothing more: my cron daemon died. That's why qrunner wasn't
> > starting, and that's why messages were flooding my Mailman
> > queue... Doh.
> 
> You're not using Solaris, are you?  We used to use Solaris 2.6 for our
> main web server, and every so often the cron daemon would just die.
> That screwed up a lot of things, including Mailman.
> 
> I think that syslogd also died occasionally.
> 
> More quality bug-ware from Sun...
> 
>         Greg
> 
> (We have been much happier since we switched to Linux for our main web
> and email server.)