[Mailman-Users] Making sure MailMan is running...

[Jason Pruim]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Larry Stone wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jason Pruim wrote:
>
>> I have looked around on the web and haven't found any info that I
>> understand about making sure that mailman is receiving and sending e-
>> mail that is sent into it. I just had a situation where on my site
>> (With real low volume lists) that it was not sending mail since the  
>> 11
>> of december...
>>
>> Would it be best to watch for the qrunner process and make sure  
>> that's
>> running? Or is there a better way? I'm planning on writing this  
>> into a
>> Widget (For all you Macintosh people out there) if I can find a good
>> way to make sure this is up and running.
>
> Is this for Mac OS X? It's not clear although you made the reference  
> to
> Macintoshes above.
>
> I don't know anything about writing OS X widgets but as I've had an  
> issue
> with Mailman not starting reliably under Leopard, I set up a cron  
> job to
> run hourly and let me know if all the qrunners aren't there. It's  
> pretty
> simple:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> QRUNNERS=`ps -efw | grep -v grep | grep -c Python | awk '{ print  
> $1 }'`
>
> if [ $QRUNNERS != 9 ] ; then
>  {
>    echo "Mailman qrunner problem" | /usr/sbin/sendmail me at mydomain.com
>  }
> fi
>
> Note that despite the "sendmail" command used there, that's really  
> Postfix
> as Postfix used the command "sendmail" (for Sendmail compatibility)  
> as a
> means of injecting mail. Note also that as written, the mail message  
> will
> be missing all RFC required headers but as it's going to myself, I  
> don't
> care. You could, of course, do something else there to provide
> notification.
>
> -- Larry Stone
>   lstone19 at stonejongleux.com

Hi Larry,

Thanks for the response. The server in question is a Mac OS X Server  
10.4.11(Tiger) server. I will definitely look into that code, and see  
if I could incorporate that into my widget (Writing widgets in Leopard  
is pretty easy if you know what you want to do!)


--

Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424
www.raoset.com
japruim at raoset.com