On Mar 2, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Jim Wright wrote:
> I've been lurking on this list for a few years now, and have been running
> Mailman 2.1.14 for a few years here. I have no idea what install tips I may
> have followed originally, but Mailman is generally working fine. The issue
> I'm running into is that Mailman needs to be restarted periodically, usually
> where I notice this is that at the beginning of the month Mailman doesn't
> send out it's usual monthly reminder. I only have 1 very low volume mailing
> list, so this is usually the first clue that it has stopped.
>
> I have several LaunchDaemons set up to perform various functions at various
> intervals, but like I said I'm not sure what steps I originally followed when
> setting this up, if I created these from scratch, etc. So, basically, I'm
> looking for help from any other OS X users that might have a working set of
> launchctl files that I could leverage, I'm currently running OS X 10.7.5
> (non-Server) on the mail server.
I think the real question you have to answer is why it needs to be restarted. I
run Mailman on OS X (client) but am on the current Mavericks (10.9.2). My
launchctl plist merely starts Mailman at boot (mailmanctl -s start) and exits
(RunAtLoad true). It does not monitor and restart it and I do not have a
problem with Mailman dying on me (but if it does, I have an hourly cron job
that checks to make sure what should be running (more than just Mailman) is
running. Rarely does it catch something).
Unfortunately, as I understand it (I am not a launchd expert), launchd expects
any program it starts to keep running. Programs that are started with a command
that starts the daemon and then exit (such as Mailman’s mailmanctl command) do
not fit the launchd model. In a normal launchd environment where it’s told to
keep a program running with KeepAlive, it would see mailmanctl exit and restart
it - obviously not what we want with Mailman. Since the command it is running
is mailmanctl, it has not idea of what other processes start as a result so has
no way to monitor them.
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