[Mailman-Users] OutgoingRunner Failing (fwd)

[sean at sweetbourbon.com]

Oh, I forgot to mention.  I'm not running multiple slices so Greenburg's
patch doesn't apply.

Sean



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:03:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean <sean at sweetbourbon.com>
To: mailman-users at python.org
Cc: d.richards at qut.edu.au
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] OutgoingRunner Failing


> Hi all,
>
> I have the OutgoingRunner process failing quite regularly, and this has
> resulted in a build up of mail in the qfiles/out directory.  How do I
> find out what is going on in this process for it to be failing like
> this?

I experienced the same problem running Mailman 2.1.5 on a FreeBSD 4.6 box.
I couldn't find anything telling in the logs.  I upped the number of times
that the qrunner would restart from 10 to 50.  Still had the problem
occur.  Now I have a cron job restart mailman every 4 hours.   Nothing
backs up in the outgoing directory now and I haven't notice any residual
problems from this change.

This doesn't get to the source of the problem though. :(  I figured it
might be something with the content of the messages but with hundreds of
lists running on 4 different servers it isn't something easily tracked
down.  Additionally no other mailman users complained about it until now.

Sean