[Mailman-Users] mailing lists failing - URGENT

[Jon Carnes]

Good call.  Some systems run through a security check on boot and reset
permissions.

My guess is that the reboot caused a file being written to in one his
queues to be incomplete or corrupt.

(of course - we're all just dancing in the dark...)

Jon Carnes

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 17:56, Richard Barrett wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:47, Merle Reine wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for not giving more information, I am completely stressed.
> >
> > I have mailman v 2.1.x and qrunner is running.  In 
> > /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt it is full of files.  They appear to be 
> > filling up there.  Any Ideas?
> >
> 
> If messages are being shunted, are you certain that nothing is being 
> written to $prefix/logs/error; that is what I would expect to be 
> happening with shunts. If not is it possible that the permissions of 
> the logs directory have gotten screwed up? It might be worth running 
> check_perms to see if that makes any difference. Aside from that ...
> 
> btw: what was the reason for the reboot? Any possibility of the cause 
> being something that has  affected MM's operation?
> 
> > Richard Barrett wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 3 Feb 2004, at 22:19, Merle Reine wrote:
> >>
> >>> my mailing lists have been working for many month and all of a 
> >>> sudden after a reboot, fail to send.  I get no errors and in the 
> >>> /var/log/mail is shows:
> >>>
> >>> Feb  3 14:10:40 mail postfix/local[12282]: 8C5AD18EC02: 
> >>> to=<alert at lindows.com>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent 
> >>> ("|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post alert")
> >>>
> >>> I is sending to the list but the list is not sending out to the 
> >>> recipients.  This is urgent, anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >>
> >> You do not say what version of MM you are running but:
> >>
> >> If MM 2.0.x: is the mailman user's crontab installed and executing 
> >> the qrunner?
> >>
> >> If MM 2.1.x: has $prefix/bin/mailmanctl been executed to start the 
> >> qrunners and is the mailman user's crontab installed?
> >>
> >> In either version case are files accumulating under the 
> >> $prefix/qfiles directory?
> >>
> >
> 
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