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From: Joby Walker <zorloc@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] mailman^postfix update problems
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:07:36
Message-Id: 40D723DD.1030209@imperium.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] mailman^postfix update problems by Christian Parpart
1 Probably a stale pid file.
2
3 1) Stop the daemon, disable any cron jobs and access to the website
4 2) Check <mailmanroot>/locks/, it should be empty. If not...
5 3) delete all files, except the .keep.
6 4) Re-enable cron jobs and website access, restart the daemon.
7
8 jbw
9
10 Christian Parpart wrote:
11
12 > Joby Walker said:
13 >
14 >>Christian,
15 >>
16 >>Have you tried manually running check_perms? Have you checked the
17 >>mailman logs?
18 >
19 >
20 > I've invoked check_perms several times. even check_db.
21 >
22 >
23 >>The mailman logs are pretty good, I usually find some
24 >>important info on why mailman misbehaves for me.
25 >
26 >
27 > in file /usr/local/logs/qrunner:
28 > [...]
29 > Jun 21 17:48:10 2004 (3953) ArchRunner qrunner started.
30 > Jun 21 17:48:10 2004 (3954) BounceRunner qrunner started.
31 > Jun 21 17:48:10 2004 (3956) IncomingRunner qrunner started.
32 > Jun 21 17:48:10 2004 (3957) NewsRunner qrunner started.
33 > Jun 21 17:48:10 2004 (3955) CommandRunner qrunner started.
34 > Jun 21 17:48:11 2004 (3959) VirginRunner qrunner started.
35 > Jun 21 17:48:11 2004 (3960) RetryRunner qrunner started.
36 > Jun 21 17:48:11 2004 (3958) OutgoingRunner qrunner started.
37 > Jun 21 17:48:11 2004 (3951) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
38 > (pid: 3958, sig: 11, sts: None, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1)
39 > [restarting]
40 > [...lots.of.repititions...]
41 > Jun 21 17:48:13 2004 (3972) OutgoingRunner qrunner started.
42 > Jun 21 17:48:14 2004 (3951) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
43 > (pid: 3972, sig: 11, sts: None, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1)
44 > [restarting]
45 > Jun 21 17:48:14 2004 (3951) Qrunner OutgoingRunner reached maximum restart
46 > limit of 10, not restarting.
47 >
48 > But which so called 'subprocess' exited?
49 > And - more important - why?
50 >
51 > /usr/local/mailman/log/error seems untouched since Jun 10 20:05:01 2004.
52 >
53 > It must be anything regarding to the SMTP sending mechanism in /
54 > or related to mailman. But sending mails via squirrelmail works
55 > fine, so this (I guess) can't be really the reason.
56 >
57 > Thanks in advance,
58 > Christian Parpart.
59 >
60 >
61 >
62 >>Christian Parpart wrote:
63 >>
64 >>>Hi all,
65 >>>
66 >>>I recently updated my postfix and mailman resulting into some mailman
67 >>>issues,
68 >>>that is, I can send mails to the mailinglists it serves, they get
69 >>>archived,
70 >>>but they won't be sent out to the subscribers. Why?
71 >>>
72 >>>I already look into postfix' main.cf and the Mailman/Default.py for some
73 >>>changes, but nothing special found.
74 >>>
75 >>>Also, the mailman ebuild seems to have some problems, it creates the
76 >>>.keep
77 >>>files, and then executes bin/check_perms which interprets even those
78 >>>files as
79 >>>directories what - of course - results into an error while emerging.
80 >>>
81 >>>I inserted an
82 >>>
83 >>>find . -type d -name .keep -exec rm -f {} \;
84 >>>
85 >>>above the check_perms command line in this ebuild.
86 >>>
87 >>>Thanks in advance,
88 >>>Christian Parpart.
89 >>
90 >>
91 >
92 >

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