Carlos Williams wrote: >I have no idea what happened to my mailman installation. As far as I >can tell from a very basic administrative and user level, it works >perfect with my Postifx install. Only only noticed this was a problem >when I started to migrate my mailman data to a new email server I am >building to replace this old hardware. > >When I go to /var/lib/mailman/archives/private - I then see the >mailman.mbox directory. This directory repeats over and over: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman.mbox]# pwd >/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox > > >I have never seen anything like this and so far this is the only one I >have seen so far with this problem. My only solution to fix it is to >delete everything recursive from >/var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox. I don't know if this is going >to break anything or what. I notice in my other *.mbox directories, >there is always a file that ends in *.mbox.
Someone else reported a similar symptom a month or two ago. (I just tried to find this in the archive, and I see it was you, not someone else.) I have no idea how this happened. I suspect somehow instead of mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox being a file, it somehow became a link back to its parent. If this is the case, even "rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox" may not succeed because it may loop indefinitely, but it's worth a try. At worst, you might be able to "mv /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox junk". Then you could create a new /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox directory and empty /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox file with the same ownership and permissions as the good ones. -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
