[Mailman-Users] old messages sent to list on reboot

[Eric Smith]

Thank Mark

Mark Sapiro wrote on Sun-30-Aug 15  3:54AM
> On 08/27/2015 10:53 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> There was a bug in Mailman 2.1.9 that would not unlink the
> qfiles/QUEUE/*.bak files used for recovery processing under some
> conditions. These files would then be 'recovered' when Mailman is restarted.

% dpkg -l|grep mailman.
ii  mailman                                     1:2.1.18-1ubuntu1

> It the above is not the reason, We'd need more information to diagnose
> how this happened.
> 
> Perhaps id you examine your 'qrunner' log leading up to the reboot,
> you'll find that some runner or runners had died and not restarted, and
> then started and processed their queues after the reboot.

I started reboot on 27 August at 16:14;
# zcat  qrunner.3.gz
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3092) CommandRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3094) NewsRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3090) ArchRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3091) BounceRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3093) IncomingRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:25 2015 (3097) RetryRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:26 2015 (3096) VirginRunner qrunner started.
Aug 27 16:15:26 2015 (3095) OutgoingRunner qrunner started.
# zcat  qrunner.2.gz
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3097) RetryRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3089) Master watcher caught SIGHUP.  Re-opening log files.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3092) CommandRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3096) VirginRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3091) BounceRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3095) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3094) NewsRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3093) IncomingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 28 08:04:29 2015 (3090) ArchRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
# zcat  qrunner.1.gz
pepper:/var/log/mailman# cat  qrunner.1
Aug 29 07:53:39 2015 (3096) VirginRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:39 2015 (3095) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:40 2015 (3089) Master watcher caught SIGHUP.  Re-opening log files.
Aug 29 07:53:42 2015 (3091) BounceRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:42 2015 (3094) NewsRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:43 2015 (3092) CommandRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:43 2015 (3097) RetryRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:43 2015 (3093) IncomingRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.
Aug 29 07:53:43 2015 (3090) ArchRunner qrunner caught SIGHUP.  Reopening logs.

huh?
# zcat  qrunner.4.gz
# zcat  qrunner.5.gz
# ls -lrt qr*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list  20 Aug 23 07:58 qrunner.7.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list  20 Aug 24 08:06 qrunner.6.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list  20 Aug 25 07:48 qrunner.5.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list  20 Aug 26 07:39 qrunner.4.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 151 Aug 27 16:15 qrunner.3.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 194 Aug 28 08:04 qrunner.2.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 729 Aug 29 07:53 qrunner.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 list list 729 Aug 30 07:37 qrunner

Eric