[Mailman-Users] What’s up: Sitelist is missing: mailman

[Dominik Hoffmann]

Thanks, Mark!

As for more details on the error, I found the following

bounce: no errors
posts: no errors
qrunner:

Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 299, sig: None, sts: 15, class: CommandRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 301, sig: None, sts: 15, class: NewsRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 298, sig: None, sts: 15, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 304, sig: None, sts: 15, class: RetryRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 303, sig: None, sts: 15, class: VirginRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:11 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 297, sig: None, sts: 15, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:12 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 302, sig: None, sts: 15, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1) 
Mar 20 11:25:12 2017 (291) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
(pid: 300, sig: None, sts: 15, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1) 

This is, I believe the first date, on which I had trouble. I noticed something was up only two days later. Only today did I notice the extent to which something was wrong.

smtp:

Silence between March 20, 9:48 AM until today 12:31, when I fixed the missing mailman list and restarted mailman.

smtp-failure: no errors
subscribe: no errors
vette: no errors

Any idea, why the instructions at <https://www.askdavetaylor.com/why_is_mailman_complaining_site_list_is_missing_mailman/> have me add aliases to /etc/aliases? I don’t recall having to do that, when I first set up mailman.

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 3:11 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> 
> On 03/24/2017 09:10 AM, Dominik Hoffmann wrote:
>> My error log shows entries like this
>> 
>> Mar 22 16:52:28 2017 mailmanctl(175): Site list is missing: mailman 
>> Mar 22 16:52:28 2017 (175) Site list is missing: mailman
> ...
> 
>> The question I have for you guys are
>> 
>> 1. How might this have happened?
> 
> 
> The list got deleted. I have no clue as to how. Exactly when did these
> messages start appearing in the error log? What other messages are
> logged in various logs at times between the previous Mailman (re)start
> and then?
> 
> 
>> 2. What is the purpose of the mailman list.
> 
> 
> It is a long standing requirement of Mailman 2.1. Its address is exposed
> as a help/info address on the web admin and listinfo overview pages. Its
> -request address is the From: address in password reminders and it's
> -bounces address is the bounce address of last resort.
> 
> It goes away (along with password reminders) in MM 3.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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