Hi Mark,
Just to re-visit this...
On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Chris Waltham wrote:
With the exception of 3-4 lists (out of 800+), I let the "make
update"
command run so I presume that actually upgraded the lists. I think I
might just delete the holdmsg files en masse, I can't see why
(organizationally) I should need to keep them.
When you delete these files, it is better to use bin/discard as
discussed in
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.074.htp>
rather than just rm. This is because bin/discard actually removes the
held message from the requests.pck file (see below). However, if the
heldmsg-* file is an orphan, it won't be removed by bin/discard, so
you need to run bin/discard first and then rm any files left.
The problem with just removing the heldmsg-* file is if there are a
large number of held messages for a single list, the admindb CGI can
time out trying to create the held messages page, and just removing
the heldmsg-* files without also removing the request.pck entries
won't cure this time out.
I looked at my heldmsg files (all 40,000 of them :-)) and there are a
number patterns. Most heldmsg files are from a handful of lists (let's
call them baseball and football). If I do a dumpdb of the hockey
list's pending.pck file, this is the output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/bin]$ ./dumpdb ../lists/hockey/pending.pck
[----- start pickle file -----]
<----- start object 1 ----->
{ '6183e43cf99b4a6850537d2a4837b26886bade2a': ('H', 5145),
'd22c46a0b5c704ec8be5c63a791e53adc23dc7fc': ('H', 5146),
'df7eae0e0a275c43b9c4bfb8d5f037df578e6cc2': ('H', 5147),
Now, the first line ends with the value "5145". Here is what I can
find on the filesystem:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/data]$ ls -al heldmsg-hockey* | grep 5145
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 3395 May 4 12:54 heldmsg-
hockey-5145.pck
I rinsed & repeated that process with the other two entries in the
pending.pck file, i.e. 5146 and 5147. For both of those two, I can
find heldmsg-hockey-NNNN.pck (where NNNN equals the ID above).
However, I still have an awful lot of heldmsg-hockey files that
are .txt files, not .pck files:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/data]$ ls -al heldmsg-hockey*.txt | wc -l
3610
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/data]$ ls -alt heldmsg-hockey*.txt | head
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2210 Mar 13 08:42 heldmsg-
hockey-4920.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 3250 Mar 13 08:14 heldmsg-
hockey-4919.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 3646 Mar 13 01:18 heldmsg-
hockey-4918.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2505 Mar 12 03:50 heldmsg-
hockey-4917.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2377 Mar 12 03:50 heldmsg-
hockey-4916.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2815 Mar 11 14:38 heldmsg-
hockey-4915.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2354 Mar 10 12:02 heldmsg-
hockey-4914.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2591 Mar 10 11:28 heldmsg-
hockey-4913.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2227 Mar 10 11:19 heldmsg-
hockey-4912.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2551 Mar 10 11:19 heldmsg-
hockey-4911.txt
I think March 10 is around the time that I went from Mailman 2.0.12 to
2.1.9. Now my question is this: does Mailman 2.1.9 reference .txt
files for heldmessages, or are we only using .pck files now?
Thanks!
Chris
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