[Mailman-Users] qfiles/bounces

[Doc Schneider]

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Doc Schneider wrote:
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>>Larry Rosenman wrote:
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>>>On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Doc Schneider wrote:
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>>>>Larry Rosenman wrote:
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>>>>>On Oct 13, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Doc Schneider wrote:
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>>>>>>I'm sure this question has been asked but can't find the answer.
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>>>>>>It sure is not in the FAQs.
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>>>>>>Is it ok to remove the qfiles/bounces files?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have like 50k of them on one of my servers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Or does MM require those to be kept?
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>>>>>they should(!) be being processed and deleted.  Are all the   
>>>>>QRunner  processes running?
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>>[snip]
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>>>>Those are the ones running. I believe that is what should be   
>>>>running, correct?
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>>[snip]
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>>>you are missing the bounce runner:
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>>Well dang. Hmm... so delete all the ones in there then restart MM?  
>>I seem to recall last time this server was restarted it shot a  
>>whole bunhc of "this message has bounced" to all the list owners.
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>>Probably had a bunch in the bounces and just killed it/overloaded  
>>the qrunnerbounce processor? Or am I not thinking right?
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> 
> i'd stop mailman: mailmanctl stop
> then rm qfiles/bounce
> then restart mailman: mailmanctl start
> 
> then monitor the logs, and see if BounceRunner croaks again, and if  
> so, find the traceback in the logs, and fix
> whatever it's problem is.
> 
> LER

Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618): Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File "/var/mailman/bin/qrunner", 
line 270, in ?
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      main()
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File "/var/mailman/bin/qrunner", 
line 230, in main
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      qrunner.run()
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File 
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 82, in run
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      self._cleanup()
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File 
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 139, in _cleanup
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      self._register_bounces()
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File 
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Queue/BounceRunner.py", line 129, in _register_bounces
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      mlist.registerBounce(addr, 
msg, day=day)
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):   File 
"/var/mailman/Mailman/Bouncer.py", line 131, in registerBounce
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618):      time.strftime('%d-%b-%Y', day 
+ (0,)*6))
Oct 13 17:12:27 2005 qrunner(20618): ValueError :  day of year out of range

And it bombed.

Any ideas on what is happening?

-Doc