What's hanging up mailman? [was Re: [Mailman-Users] elusive qrunner PID]

[Stephen Lu]

Ah, thanks. I tried what you suggested, and it returned nothing. So I guess
qrunner is not running, which brings me back to the problem. (I had looked
it up in FAQ, and I thought the problem was with qrunner).

Sendmail is in a loop trying to send a message out to a number of
subscribers. The other sides are rejecting it because "Sender address
rejected: Domain not found". We are in the process of switching our server
but keeping the same domain name. The list has been moved to the new
machine, but the machine's IP address hasn't been registered under the
domain yet. I imagine that's why the other side is rejecting the sender
address.

So Sendmail just kept trying and trying, and I can't send any new messages
out over the list. New messages just get stacked in qfiles.

So I've cleared out all files in qfiles and in locks, but Sendmail is still
on a mission. How do I make it stop?

Thanks for helping out this newbie to the Unix world.

> 
> Look really close... are you sure what your seeing is the PID of the 'grep
> qrunner' ?
> 
> try this:  ps aux|grep qrunner|grep -v grep
> 
> the last grep -v grep will not show the PID of the grep itself
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Stephen Lu <stevelu at amamedia.org>:
> 
>> Sorry if this is duplicated message. I thought I had sent it out earlier,
>> but MS Entourage claimed it wasn't...
>> ...................................
>> 
>> Mailman 2.0.13
>> Sendmail 8.12.2
>> OS X 10.2 (darwin)
>> 
>> I need to kill off qrunner that got hung up on a message. I've already
>> deleted lock files as well as cleared out qfiles.
>> 
>> After find out the qrunner PID, I tried to kill the process, but it came
>> back and said "no such process." I do an other ps aux|grep qrunner, and the
>> PID for qrunner has moved to by 2, ie. it went from 1779 to 1781. And if I
>> just continue doing ps aux|grep qrunner, the PID kept increasing by 2 each
>> time. And also, qrunner doesn't show up under ps aux, only when I do ps
>> aux|grep qrunner. So I tried to anticipate it and kill the PID 2 ahead of
>> what just showed up, and of course there's no such process.
>> 
>> So where exactly is this process and how do I kill it?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>>