Hi,
Did you solve this problem ?
You can prevent so big discard problem again by applying this patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=790494&group_id=103&atid=300103
Cheers,
Robert Echlin wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin.
One of our mail
> "Robert" == Robert Echlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> That looks like an interesting solution. I'll make a note
Robert> of it for next time.
Well, last I heard your server was still trying to create the page and
choking. This will solve that, because there is an index of pe
At 10:11 AM -0400 2004-08-12, David Relson wrote:
I'm running mailman using the Mandrake 10.0 rpms. I apologize for not
mentioning that fact. I assumed that the division of files between
/usr/local/mailman and /var/lib/mailman was standard. Evidently I was
mistaken.
Anything done by any oth
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:40:30 +0200
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 9:44 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
>
> > No! Recursive grep commands include a directory specification,
> > hence don't need to be executed from a specific subdirectory. My
> > "egrep -r... /usr/lib/mailman" command searc
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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
Thanks, Stephen
That lo
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From: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> For my next try, I have set th
At 9:44 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
No! Recursive grep commands include a directory specification, hence
don't need to be executed from a specific subdirectory. My "egrep -r
... /usr/lib/mailman" command searches mailman's source tree.
I have no idea what OS you're using and wher
> "Robert" == Robert Echlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> Stuff I looked at:
Robert> - 2004 mailman list messages.
Robert> - google for "discard mailman script"
Robert> - mailman faq (search for discard)
Robert> - docs on www.list.org
Robert> - bin/discard.py seem
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:03:21 +0200
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 6:47 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
>
> > In this case, you're mistaken. The double quotes work fine for
> > this purpose (though the '-w' should be removed).
>
> If it's in double quotes, the shell will still try to
At 6:47 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
In this case, you're mistaken. The double quotes work fine for this
purpose (though the '-w' should be removed).
If it's in double quotes, the shell will still try to interpret
the wildcard. If you want to protect it from that, you need to put
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:32:40 +0200
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 3:21 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
>
> > Remember "deferred" is the default. I bet that selecting that
> > checkbox justs adds a simple key/value pair like "all=yes" to the
> > cgi request. The origin of the "discard all d
At 3:21 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote:
Remember "deferred" is the default. I bet that selecting that checkbox
justs adds a simple key/value pair like "all=yes" to the cgi request.
The origin of the "discard all deferred items" (or whatever the wording
is) can likely be found with:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:38:52 -0400
Robert Echlin wrote:
...[snip]...
> #2 sounds useful, but it may not be. It almost certainly requires that
> you pass a lot of parameters to provide the identities of all the
> requests (some multiple of 11000 or so parameters) that need to be
> discarded. Reme
- Original Message -
From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> Hi Robert,
>
> We're way beyond my knowledge of mailman at this point !
At 11:50 AM -0400 2004-08-11, Robert Echlin wrote:
So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I had
to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too long" message
bit me.
In these kinds of cases, what you can usually do is something like this:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:50:06 -0400
Robert Echlin wrote:
...[snip]...
> The page timed after about 15 minutes, and the python process
> disappeared.
>
> So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I
> had to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too
> lon
Robert Echlin wrote:
The page timed after about 15 minutes, and the python process disappeared.
So I deleted the mailman/data/heldmsg-yourlistname-*.pck files - and I had
to delete them in stages, as the infamous "Argument list too long" message
bit me.
And now I tried again and it timed out again
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To: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> - Original Mess
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From: "David Relson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:22:06 -0500
> Eric Schmitz wrote:
>
> > Go to t
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:22:06 -0500
Eric Schmitz wrote:
> Robert,
>
> This is probably a really dirty way to go about it, but I've done
> this before and it worked, and without hosing the system. This worked
> with version 2.1.2. I haven't tried it with 2.1.5, because there's a
> "discard a
>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
Hi,
I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin.
One of our mail lists has accumulated over 10,000 (ten thousand) spam
messages.
The web page to show pending message
At 6:48 PM -0400 2004-08-10, Robert Echlin wrote:
No suggestions in over 24 hours.
Problem is, it can take a while to get a response from someone
who knows what they're doing in this kind of situation. While
Mailman is used at a large number of sites, and some of those are
pretty big, not all
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Echlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] BIG discard problem
> Hi,
> I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin.
>
> One of o
Hi,
I have a problem discarding pending messages for the admin.
One of our mail lists has accumulated over 10,000 (ten thousand) spam
messages.
The web page to show pending messages, after several minutes, maybe an hour,
still seems to be churning away, so fix methods based on looking at the web
p
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