[Mailman-Users] Re: Starting qrunner for FreeBSD

[Will Yardley]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 06:10:20AM +0200, Amardeo Sarma wrote:

> I am a newbie and running Mailman 2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.7 / VPSv2, which works 
> with the old technique of running qrunner every minute from cron. The INSTALL 
> instructions give some hints on how to start the qrunner daemon at startup time 
> (apparently the preferred mode for 2.1.x), but this seems geared to Linux. I 
> would appreciate any hints on what the best solution for FreeBSD systems is.

Just link /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl to
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh

Something like (adjust path as necessary):
ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mailman.sh /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl

Do note, however, that if the system crashes, the stale lockfile may not
get removed when it comes back up.

You could put a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/00somename.sh that does
something like (untested):

#!/bin/sh
# remove dead links
case "$1" in
start)
	test -f /usr/local/mailman/locks/master-qrunner && rm /usr/local/mailman/locks/master-qrunner
	;;
stop)
	;;
esac

Running mailmanctl -s *should* fix stale lockfiles, but doesn't seem to
work in my experience (see some past posts to the list as well).

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