Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble

[Dale]

Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
> Hi
>
> For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a
> upgrade but I'm not sure.
>
> I can't seem to start or stop mailman...
>
> # /etc/init.d/mailman stop
> * Stopping mailman
> ...
> [ !! ]
> # /etc/init.d/mailman start
> * WARNING:  mailman has already been started.
>
> I tried to start mailman manually with '/usr/lib/mailman/mailmanctl
> start' but got this error:
>
> Site list is missing: mailman
>
> Then I ask mailman to display my lists with  '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/
> list_lists' which gave me this response:
>
> No matching mailing lists found
>
> which is somewhat odd as I checked that the lists was located where
> they have been the whole time at '/usr/local/mailman/lists/' which was
> the case.
>
> I have tried to kill all mailman processes but without any luck in
> regards to starting the service again.
>
> My best bet is that I have missed some crucial change when  accepted
> changes to a conf file after an upgrade using dispatch-conf, but I
> have no idea which.
>
> Anybody had the same problem and found a solution?
>
> Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh
> installation of mailman?
>

I'm not sure about mailman but this is how I handle a service that is 
giving me fits.  /etc/init.d/<service-name> stop.  Then I use ps aux and 
make sure there are no living processes still there and kill them if 
needed.  Then I do a /etc/init.d/<service-name> zap then do a 
/etc/init.d/<service-name> start.  Cross all fingers at that point.

I'm not sure if it will help or not but until some mailman guru comes 
along, it may be worth thinking about trying.  YMMV.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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