[Mailman-Users] More about my attachment problems

[Dan Mick]

Worth trying something like truss/strace/whatever to see what that
qrunner process is doing at a system-call level.  It doesn't
make any sense that it would say "unlocked" and there still
be a file there...the file has been successfully unlinked at that
point.

> It's still there, and it seems to be dead -- It sat for as much as six
> days in one case, before I found it.
> 
> In my locks directory:
> 
>    -rw-rw-r--  2 mailman  mailman  73 Aug 11 19:48 qrunner.lock
>    -rw-rw-r--  2 mailman  mailman  73 Aug 11 19:48
>    qrunner.lock.catalpa.forest.net.32882
> 
> The process:
> 
>    mailman       32882  0.0  1.5  4476 3816  ??  I     9:48AM   0:00.94
>    /usr/local/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/forest.net/cron/qr
> 
> The following log files changed at that time.  digest:
> 
>    Aug 11 09:48:01 2000 (32882) Df-test v 7 - 1 msgs, 0 recips (0 mime, 0
>    text, 0 disabled)
>    Aug 11 09:48:01 2000 (32882) next df-test digest: #8, post#1
> 
> locks:
> 
>    Aug 11 09:48:01 2000 (32882) /usr/local/mailman/forest.net/cron/qrunner:
>    df-test.lock laying claim
>    Aug 11 09:48:01 2000 (32882) /usr/local/mailman/forest.net/cron/qrunner:
>    df-test.lock got the lock
>    Aug 11 09:48:02 2000 (32882) /usr/local/mailman/forest.net/cron/qrunner:
>    df-test.lock unlocked
> 
> qrunner:
> 
>    Aug 11 09:48:01 2000 (32882) qrunner begining
> 
> The error log was not updated.
> 
> I've been sending test messages -- I can narrow it down some more, but so
> far I've found that a message of 51K or less goes through without a
> problem, and of 58K or more fails.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
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