We're using Mailman 2.0 on a Redhat machine with Sendmail. Occasionally upon accessing
the
web admin interface some lockfiles remain and they need to be deleted. At this time
there is one
sleeping python process:
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[root locks]# ps -AHf
..
httpd 3564 424 0 10:24 ? 00:00:55 /usr/sbin/httpd -f
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
httpd 18038 3564 0 15:42 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/scripts/driver admin
..
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The /locks directory shows locks with future dates:
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[root locks]# ls -lsa --full-time
total 8
1 drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1024 Sun Feb 11 15:36:01 2001 .
1 drwxrwsr-x 24 mailman mailman 1024 Tue Jan 02 14:51:39 2001 ..
1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:29:57 2001 listname.lock
1 -rw-rw-r-- 2 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:29:57 2001
listname.lock.www.domain.com.17488
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:30:03 2001
listname.lock.www.domain.com.17498
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:30:48 2001
listname.lock.www.domain.com.17546
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:31:40 2001
listname.lock.www.domain.com.17569
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 httpd mailman 53 Sun Feb 11 20:32:45 2001
listname.lock.www.domain.com.17629
[root locks]# date
Sun Feb 11 15:37:15 PST 2001
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Today I have deleted some lockfiles while delivery to a list of +10.000 took place and
18 copies of the
message were delivered before I emptied the queue. Mailman and httpd error logs are
not touched.
Is there any connection between deleting the lockfiles and multiple deliveries? Are
lockfiles with
future dates normal? Is deleting lockfiles a bad thing?
Regards
Gergely
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