[Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archive process running?

[Mark Sapiro]

TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
>
>For the record, I see no evidence the cron for archive updates is running
>now on the new server either. In fact from your comments, I'd say the pck
>files in qfiles/shunt strongly suggest that it's NOT running or at least not
>running correctly.


cron is not involved. The archiving process is ArchRunner, one of the 8
qrunners that run continuously when Mailman is running.

Even if ArchRunner is not running, the messages to be archived will be
queued in the archive queue. Since this is not happening, I think
archiving for the list must have been turned off. What is the setting
for "Archive messages?" on the list's Archiving Options page?

As far as the shunted messages are concerned, there should be an error
message and a traceback for each one of these in Mailman's error log.
What are these? Also, you can see the messages themselve by pointing
Mailman's bin/dumpdb or bin/show_qfiles at the .pck files.

It is possible that these are the recent messages missing from the
archive, but only the error log and the contents of the .pck files
will answer that for sure.


>Here's what I see when I look at the current mailman
>archive/private/listname.mbox directory
>
>   4 drwxrwsr-x 2 ourlist    mailman    4096 2008-10-28 06:34 .
>   4 drwxrws--- 8 nobody     mailman    4096 2008-07-10 06:53 ..
>   0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root       mailman      41 2008-10-28 06:34 arc -> /www/ourlist/newtest/mailman archives/


I don't know what this symlink is for?  I don't think Mailman will use
it for anything.


>5624 -rw-r--r-- 1 root       mailman 5743206 2008-07-07 06:22 ourlist.mbox
>
>Note the date on the ourlist.mbox file. That's the last time the archive
>process ran successfully.
>
>Something is obviously wrong here; but I'm not sure exactly what.


At this point, my best guess is that the list's archive setting was
turned off sometime between the post at 06:22 on July 7 and the next
post.

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