João Sá Marta wrote: >Every day the qfiles/out directory gets hundreds of *.pck files not posted >to the mailing lists. > >Manually, one can stop the master qrunner through mailmanctl stop and start >it again using mailmanctl start . But every time I've done that there's a >lock and I manually removed the locks and issued the mailmanctl start . >That worked . > >But , analysing the processes on the system I have noticed that are several >OutgoingRunner's , and the only way to get the messages posted to the >mailing lists is killing those processes.
That's because you are force starting Mailman when it hasn't fully stopped. Lock files have a reason. See FAQ <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.068.htp>. >It's quite unusual because it's the first time (3 weeks ago) this is >happening after several years of using mailman. It appears there may be some queued message in the out/ queue causing a problem. There may also be a problem between Mailman and Sendmail. What is in Mailman's 'smtp' and 'smtp-failure' logs and also Sendmail's logs? Is this a Debian Mailman and Python package? If so, see a couple of threads in the mailman-users archive. One thread begins at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-October/053942.html> (the link above) and is a single thread in the archive. The other thread is broken in the archive because of many off-list replies, but in subject sequence, it is those messages with subjects [Mailman-Users] can't get mailman and exim4 talking on my debian 3.1 [Mailman-Users] slow processing [Mailman-Users] Still can't send out from Mailman If there is no problem evident in the smtp or smtp-failure logs, look for an older message in the out/ queue and try moving it aside. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
