[gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

[gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,
I've suddenly detected that the mailman archives are not written
anymore. I use the normal, run-of-the-mill pipermail coming w/
mailman. End of december I migrated my mailing lists to a new PC. The
My installation data:
#eix mailman
[I] net-mail/mailman
     Available versions:  2.1.9_rc1 ~2.1.9
     Installed:           2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2 -courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail)
     Homepage:            http://www.list.org/
     Description:         A python-based mailing list server with an extensive web interface

# equery uses mailman
[ Searching for packages matching mailman... ]
[ Colour Code : set unset ]
[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
[        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
[ Found these USE variables for net-mail/mailman-2.1.9_rc1 ]
 U I
 + + apache2  : Chooses Apache2 support when a package supports both Apache1 and Apache2
 - - courier  : Build with delivery options for courier
 - - exim     : Build with delivery options for exim
 + + postfix  : Build with delivery options for postfix
 - - qmail    : Build with delivery options for qmail
 - - sendmail : Build with delivery options for sendmail
 - - xmail    : Build with delivery options for xmail

Any ideas?
- shocked in Vienna,
Wolfgang
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

[Alexis Lahouze]

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Hi,
I know there are basic questions but:
- do you have any free space on your fs?
- is the destination folder for mailman writable for the user or the  
group which executes mailman processes?

I don't know mailman so I can't help more, sorry...


Wolfgang Liebich <Wolfgang.Liebich@siemens.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
> I've suddenly detected that the mailman archives are not written
> anymore. I use the normal, run-of-the-mill pipermail coming w/
> mailman. End of december I migrated my mailing lists to a new PC. The
> My installation data:
> #eix mailman
> [I] net-mail/mailman
>      Available versions:  2.1.9_rc1 ~2.1.9
>      Installed:           2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2   
> -courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail)
>      Homepage:            http://www.list.org/
>      Description:         A python-based mailing list server with an  
>  extensive web interface
>
> # equery uses mailman
> [ Searching for packages matching mailman... ]
> [ Colour Code : set unset ]
> [ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
> [        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> [ Found these USE variables for net-mail/mailman-2.1.9_rc1 ]
>  U I
>  + + apache2  : Chooses Apache2 support when a package supports both  
>  Apache1 and Apache2
>  - - courier  : Build with delivery options for courier
>  - - exim     : Build with delivery options for exim
>  + + postfix  : Build with delivery options for postfix
>  - - qmail    : Build with delivery options for qmail
>  - - sendmail : Build with delivery options for sendmail
>  - - xmail    : Build with delivery options for xmail
>
> Any ideas?
> - shocked in Vienna,
> Wolfgang
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:24:21AM +0100, Alexis Lahouze wrote:
> Hi,
> I know there are basic questions but:
> - do you have any free space on your fs?

Yes, enough for now (>70MB, it's text only msgs).

> - is the destination folder for mailman writable for the user or the  
> group which executes mailman processes?

Hmmm... mailman is setgid mailman (perms/ownership 8 -rwxr-sr-x 1
mailman mailman) - the perms of
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/waf-ac-core (one of the mailing
lists in question) are drwxrwsr-x  2 mailman mailman - that should be
ok, right?
The funny thing is, that for one month it worked, but the problem
seemed to be the creation of a new subdirectory. 
The file system is mounted with "noatime" option - might that be a
problem?
Delivery of the messages works - its only the archiving which don't
(w/o visible error msgs). Neither the HTML archives nor the mbox
archives are written. Strange...
- Wolfgang

> 
> I don't know mailman so I can't help more, sorry...
> 
> 
> Wolfgang Liebich <Wolfgang.Liebich@siemens.com> a écrit :
> 
> >Hi,
> >I've suddenly detected that the mailman archives are not written
> >anymore. I use the normal, run-of-the-mill pipermail coming w/
> >mailman. End of december I migrated my mailing lists to a new PC. The
> >My installation data:
> >#eix mailman
> >[I] net-mail/mailman
> >     Available versions:  2.1.9_rc1 ~2.1.9
> >     Installed:           2.1.9_rc1(11:54:59 12/07/06)(apache2   
> >-courier -exim postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail)
> >     Homepage:            http://www.list.org/
> >     Description:         A python-based mailing list server with an  
> > extensive web interface
> >
> ># equery uses mailman
> >[ Searching for packages matching mailman... ]
> >[ Colour Code : set unset ]
> >[ Legend : Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf              ]
> >[        : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> >[ Found these USE variables for net-mail/mailman-2.1.9_rc1 ]
> > U I
> > + + apache2  : Chooses Apache2 support when a package supports both  
> > Apache1 and Apache2
> > - - courier  : Build with delivery options for courier
> > - - exim     : Build with delivery options for exim
> > + + postfix  : Build with delivery options for postfix
> > - - qmail    : Build with delivery options for qmail
> > - - sendmail : Build with delivery options for sendmail
> > - - xmail    : Build with delivery options for xmail
> >
> >Any ideas?
> >- shocked in Vienna,
> >Wolfgang
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> >
> >
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman archives are not written anymore - why??

[Wolfgang Liebich]

Hi,

Just for the records - it seems a leftover lock was the
problem. Following event sequence:
Once upon a time the disk was full. Mailman could not write archives.
Upon a restart (or crash?) locks were left over in the locks/
subdirectory
Henceforth all mails which would be to archive languished in
qfiles/archive
I stopped mailman, removed all lockfiles and restarted it. The
qfiles/archive directory was emptied, and suddenly I had archive
directories for february and march and many formerly missing emails
there...
Ciao,
Wolfgang.
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