On 01/17/2018 03:19 AM, João Sá Marta wrote: > Greetings, > > > I’ve noticed that I have in my mailman installation (version 2.1.9.) a lot of > pending.pck.tmp.XXXXXXX files in several mailing lists directories > /home/mailman/lists/LISTNAME: > > -rw-rw---- 1 apache mailman 6353027 Jan 17 11:02 pending.pck
This is the real Pending database. It's size is way too big. It contains the tokens for things like Subscruptions, Unsubscriptions, Held messages, etc waiting some kind of confirmation. Requests older than PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE (default 3 days) are expunged so it's hard to imagine why it is that big. > -rw-rw---- 1 apache mailman 711556 Oct 26 17:23 > pending.pck.tmp.1000.1509035033 > -rw-rw---- 1 apache mailman 14136390 Oct 26 17:24 > pending.pck.tmp.1017.1509035052 > -rw-rw---- 1 apache mailman 1260000 Jan 6 2017 > pending.pck.tmp.10183.1483700222 > -rw-rw-— 1 apache mailman 16083210 Aug 24 17:26 > pending.pck.tmp.10631.1503592014 These are orphaned files and can be removed. When the Pending module saves the file, it saves it to pending.pck.tmp.ppp.tttt (ppp is the PID of the process and tttt is a timestamp) and after successful saving renames the pending.pck.tmp.ppp.tttt as pending.pck, so there should never be any of these files left around. You need to look at Mailman's 'error' log for entries with time stamps like those files for clues as to what's going wrong. Also, see the script at <https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/list_pending> (mirrored at <https://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/list_pending>) for a slightly more human friendly listing of the pending db. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
