Susan Feng wrote: > >I noticed the following messages in mailman error log every time when a >list is accessed, for example: > >/usr/local/mailman/lists/email-team/config.pck.tmp.mailman.Stanford.EDU.13813 >Feb 09 09:49:38 2006 (13810) Failed before cPickle: >/usr/local/mailman/lists/email-team/config.pck.tmp.mailman.Stanford.EDU.13810 >Feb 09 09:50:38 2006 (13813) Failed before cPickle: > >It doesn't seem to be harmful, because all operations seem normal. >The permission for the list is: > > drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4096 Feb 9 09:49 email-team/ > >and under email-team: > >-rw-rw-r-- 1 www-data mailman 24 Jan 21 08:55 request.pck >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 12595 Feb 9 09:49 digest.mbox >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6184 Feb 9 09:49 config.pck.last >-rw-rw---- 1 mailman mailman 6184 Feb 9 09:49 config.pck > >What does the error mean? Should I worry?
I don't know what the error means. I couldn't find the message anywhere in Mailman 2.1.7 or in Python 2.4. I might be somewhat concerned since the above shows your list's config.pck last updated at 09:49 and there was one of these messages at 9:50:38, so what was happening then. I'm also, curious about why the PIDs in the file names don't match the PID of the process doing the logging, at least not in every case. Or maybe they do. Maybe you have shown us the end of entry 1, all of entry 2 and the start of entry 3. Basically, here's what happens when a list is saved (__save() in MailList.py). There are three file names: fname = config.pck fname_last = config.pck.last and fname_tmp = config.pck.tmp.<hostname>.<PID> which in your case becomes fname_tmp = config.pck.tmp.mailman.Stanford.EDU.ppppp where ppppp is the PID of the process doing the save. The save consists of 1. open fname_tmp 2. call cPickle to pickle and dump the list to fname_tmp 3. if IOError write to the error log a message that begins "Failed config.pck write, retaining old state." and remove fname_tmp. else 4. remove fname_last 5. link fname to fname_last 6. rename fname_tmp fname So apparently, your list is being saved successfully at least some of the time, but I would try to find where those messages are coming from. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
