Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Allan Trick
At 05:19 PM 10/15/2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: >OutgoingRunner is missing. there are no 'caught SIGINT', 'exiting', >'[restarting]' or 'started' entries for it. > >What is in the qrunner log prior to this? Presumably there are entries >from last Wednesday indicating its 'restart limit' was reached. T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Trick wrote: >At 03:23 PM 10/15/2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >>Is OutgoingRunner running? If not, are there any messages in >>Mailman's 'qrunner' log indicating why or when it stopped? > >I think so. See below. > >>Have you tried 'bin/mailmanctl restart'? > >Yes, to no avail. When I do that

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Allan Trick
At 03:23 PM 10/15/2006, Mark Sapiro wrote: >Is OutgoingRunner running? If not, are there any messages in >Mailman's 'qrunner' log indicating why or when it stopped? I think so. See below. >Have you tried 'bin/mailmanctl restart'? Yes, to no avail. When I do that, this is what is logged in th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Sapiro
Allan Trick wrote: > >The last message that made it to any of our lists went out last >Wednesday. There are a bunch of .pck files in the qfiles/out >directory, so I think there are messages trying to get out. One of >them that someone called and asked me about DOES show up in the >archives fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Allan Trick
Following on to what I read in the archives of a problem Elizabeth Schwartz was having, I'm having the same thing happen to me. The last message that made it to any of our lists went out last Wednesday. There are a bunch of .pck files in the qfiles/out directory, so I think there are messages

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-10-15 Thread Allan Trick
Following on to what I read in the archives of a problem Elizabeth Schwartz was having about a month ago, I'm having the same thing happen to me. The last message that made it to any of our lists went out last Wednesday. There are a bunch of .pck files in the qfiles/out directory, so I think t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-27 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:56 AM -0400 9/27/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: > You've made this point before and each time you do, I remember > that it's a good one. :) Brad, would you mind adding this to > the Mailman 2.2 wiki page? Will do. > I think it's a worthy feature to add. Thanks!

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-27 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:07 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > But you're still using a single directory as an on-disk queue, and > that single directory has to be completely locked, operated on, and > then unlocked every single time you want to create a new

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: >I checked in last night and mailman was hung >again, but this time I saw that the OutgoingRunner process was missing, and >there are errors in the error log: The 'error' log or the 'qrunner' log? >Sep 23 08:10:17 2006 (2180) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit >(

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:45 PM -0400 9/26/06, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Actually, Mailman does implement a hashed queue of sorts for its > queue runners. Every queue file is assigned a hash and a timestamp, > encoded in the file name. The timestamp is so that qrunners can > handle the files in FIFO order. The hash

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 26, 2006, at 2:12 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 8:51 AM -0400 9/26/06, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > >> Another question: is there any parallelism of processing files >> in the out >> queue or are they done sequentially? > > By default, it's

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-26 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:51 AM -0400 9/26/06, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > Another question: is there any parallelism of processing files in the out > queue or are they done sequentially? By default, it's single-threaded -- but not really "sequential". It has more to do with how the directory entries are written

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-26 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Thanks again for all your help. I checked in last night and mailman was hung again, but this time I saw that the OutgoingRunner process was missing, and there are errors in the error log: Sep 23 08:10:17 2006 (2180) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit (pid: 1592, sig: None, sts: 1, class: Outg

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Patrick Bogen wrote: > >Might it be worthwhile to add a cautionary note to unshunt's help >files, to the effect that it should ONLY be used on qfiles/shunt, and >that its use on other queues will probably result in lost messages? > >Alternatively, maybe have it detect thigns that weren't actually >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-25 Thread Patrick Bogen
On 9/22/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The moral is "don't unshunt anything which wasn't shunted to begin > with". Might it be worthwhile to add a cautionary note to unshunt's help files, to the effect that it should ONLY be used on qfiles/shunt, and that its use on other queues will

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mark Sapiro wrote: >Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: >> >>Having cleaned that out, it sounds like I then proceeded to trash >>an afternoon's worth of messages by trying to flush the queue incorrectly. > > >I'm afraid so. In case anyone is interested in the details, what actually happened when you ran

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > >My theory: my **original** problem was a large HTML message gunking up the >out box. I'm not sure about this part. What's in Mailman's 'smtp' log? >Having cleaned that out, it sounds like I then proceeded to trash >an afternoon's worth of messages by trying to flus

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
Sigh... OK, thank you all for the help. I think I understand now! My theory: my **original** problem was a large HTML message gunking up the out box. Having cleaned that out, it sounds like I then proceeded to trash an afternoon's worth of messages by trying to flush the queue incorrectly. Fortun

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: >To follow up to my own post: >I have rebooted twice and restarted twice >I see no interesting error messages in any logs >A few messages occasionally are getting through >I have read the FAQ but found nothing applicable. > >If there's a MIME message gunking up the works,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Sapiro
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > >After working fine for a month, my mailman install broke this morning (I >know something must have changed but I can't see what!) Mail sent to lists >ends up in /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/out . If I run unshunt, nothing >changes. If I run unshunt /usr/local/mailman/qfil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:55 PM -0400 9/22/06, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > I have read the FAQ but found nothing applicable. FAQ 3.14 has most of the relevant advice that I could provide. If you didn't find anything there that was helpful to you, then I'm not sure I can say much of anything more. > If there's a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
(and yep, all the qrunner processes are running and look OK, from here) On 9/22/06, Elizabeth Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To follow up to my own post: > I have rebooted twice and restarted twice > I see no interesting error messages in any logs > A few messages occasionally are getting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
To follow up to my own post: I have rebooted twice and restarted twice I see no interesting error messages in any logs A few messages occasionally are getting through I have read the FAQ but found nothing applicable. If there's a MIME message gunking up the works, where *is* it? The qfiles subdire

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:15 PM -0400 9/22/06, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote: > Tearing my hair out here. Thanks for any clues as to what might be causing > this or where to LOOK. I'd be willing to bet that you got a message that came in which had some malformed MIME structures, and that has clogged up the queue for t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Dragon
Elizabeth Schwartz sent the message below at 15:15 9/22/2006: >I'm running mailman 2.1.8 on Solaris 10 (06/06) > >After working fine for a month, my mailman install broke this morning (I >know something must have changed but I can't see what!) Mail sent to lists >ends up in /usr/local/mailman/qfi

[Mailman-Users] Mail going to list archives but not to list!

2006-09-22 Thread Elizabeth Schwartz
I'm running mailman 2.1.8 on Solaris 10 (06/06) After working fine for a month, my mailman install broke this morning (I know something must have changed but I can't see what!) Mail sent to lists ends up in /usr/local/mailman/qfiles/out . If I run unshunt, nothing changes. If I run unshunt /usr/