--- Brad Knowles wrote: > At 5:34 PM -0700 2003/10/09, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > >Nothing looked out of place to me. The file is being created > >correctly, I'm just surprised that mailman would even touch a > >non-existent as far asits concerned (mailman know not about > >post.1 and logrotate) unless the file-handler is kept in a > >constant open state by mailman or something. > > When the file is renamed, the inode number and internal file handle > do not change. Mailman opens the file on start, and doesn't close it. > The file gets renamed, but this change is not relevant to mailman -- it > just keeps using the filehandle it's already got. This is why you have > to use mailmanctl to stop and restart mailman.
Well, if the statement "[MM] opens the file on start, and doesn't close it" is true, then it sounds very worrying. Shouldn't Mailman open/close upon prompting instead (ie. upon arrival of mail and/or when prompted for action) ? Is this a big deal to change/fix ? Regards, - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
