Now for my next guess.... Mailman sends out a welcome message after doing a read of the database and finding that the user is not a current member. That means it could have failed in it's attempt to write to the database - though that would definitely send some errors to see in the logs.
I wonder if there is a problem with commiting the data via NFS? Are you running Sync or Async? Sync doesn't send back a thumbs up to the NFS process until the write is committed on the local drive. Async smiles, and winks and says: Of course it's been committed to the local drive; pay no attention to the bits behind the curtain. Jon Carnes On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 12:42, Todd Green wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion Jon. I double checked and we only have one > install of mailman. I also looked through the aliases file and they all > point to the same place (e.g: > > mailman: "|/usr/local/pkgs/mailman-2.1.1/mail/mailman post > mailman" > > Cron jobs look good as well. Some other notes, we have the web server on > another host and share the mailman dirs via NFS (stored on Netapp filers) > > Since it is over NFS I've changed the perms to not have other rwx perms > (i.e. everything is mode 2770). However all the processes run as > mailman:mailman so they should have rights to the files. (Also I'd expect > it to never work or always work if it was a perms problem.) > > Does anyone know what files other than list/<list>/* get examined/modified > during a subscription? *something* has to be different between when a list > is working and not working. > > Of course dumpdb might not be picking something up, and/or the *.py scripts > might not be checking all the necessary error codes. Otherwise I can't see > how it'd send out a welcome notice to the list if a user wasn't really > subscribed. > > Thanks again for the help, > Todd > > > > Make sure you don't have a second mailman install on your box that you > > are accidentally using. I had a client with a similar problem and it was > > from mixing up their test install and their production install. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
