[Mailman-Users] Lists stopped working

[Skip Montanaro]

    jo> I host 5 lists using mailman and all of them have stopped working.
    jo> Mail sent to them is not going through and not found in archives.
    jo> There are no error messages.  Can someone please tell me where I
    jo> might begin to look for the problem?

Is mailman running?  You din't identify your system, but on my Linux system
I have lots of mailman-ish processes:

    % ps auxww | egrep mailman
    mailman  24530  0.0  0.4  4096 3088 ?        S    04:02   0:00 /usr/local/bin/python /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailmanctl start
    mailman  24535  0.0  0.5  5272 4040 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=ArchRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24536  0.0  0.5  5376 4204 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=BounceRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24537  0.0  0.5  5308 4168 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=CommandRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24538  0.0  0.6  5884 4736 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=IncomingRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24542  0.0  0.5  5304 4076 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=NewsRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24543  0.0  0.6  6316 5160 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=OutgoingRunner:0:1 -s
    mailman  24544  0.0  0.6  5976 4808 ?        S    04:02   0:00 qrunner /home/mailman21/bin/qrunner --runner=VirginRunner:0:1 -s
    skip     22599  0.0  0.0  1764  624 pts/1    S    11:46   0:00 egrep mailman

Assuming you're on a Linux system and Mailman is properly installed, you
might want to try (as root):

    /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailmanctl start

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