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=detailaid=790494group_id=103atid=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 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 seems to require
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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 the timeout to 1500 seconds, instead of 300
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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 looks like an interesting solution. I'll make a note
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 searches
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
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 pending
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From: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 the mailman/data directory, and delete all
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
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
long
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 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.
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 deferred
- 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 our mail lists has accumulated over 10,000 (ten
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
: [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 messages, after several minutes, maybe an
hour,
still seems to be churning away, so fix
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 all
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
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