[Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

[Matthias Schmidt]

Am/On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:49:57 +0200 schrieb/wrote Sebastian Hagedorn:

>--On 26. Juni 2009 20:22:13 +0900 Matthias Schmidt <beta at admilon.net> wrote:
>
>> Am/On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:22:02 -0500 schrieb/wrote Larry Stone:
>>
>>> On 6/18/09 7:11 PM, Bryan Harrison at bryan at bryanharrison.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've built and installed Mailman 2.12 from current source code and
>>>> have it running just fine under OS X Server 10.5.7, with on exception,
>>>> which is not properly speaking a Mailman problem at all.
>>>>
>>>> If I start Mailman from the CLI, using /usr/share/mailman/bin/
>>>> mailmanctl -s start, all is well.
>>>>
>>>> If I allow launchd to start it
>>>> S<caron>I get an endless succession ofS<caron>
>>>>
>>>> Jun 18 16:50:26 org.list.mailmanctl[1697]: Starting Mailman's master
>>>> qrunner.
>>>> Jun 18 16:50:26 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl[1697]):
>>>> Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 1698 PPID 1 Python
>>>> Jun 18 16:50:26 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.list.mailmanctl): Throttling
>>>> respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
>
>The reason this happens is that launchd expects the processes it launches 
>to stick around. They must not daemonize. But mailmanctl terminates after 
>it has started the runners. I assume that Apple modified their own 
>distribution of Mailman so that mailmanctl behaves differently. I'd suggest 
>comparing the two.

thanks, that was the information I missed and it also explains why Apple
uses -startf in the plist, which is not documented for mailman.
I meanwhile found out, that the voodoo here is to use mailmanctl from
the original Apple distribution.

cheers,
Matthias