[Mailman-Users] Stalled queue

[Mark Sapiro]

José Zapata wrote:

>Okay, so that's the problem. I have the following in my qrunner log:
>
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27571) ArchRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27572) BounceRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27571) ArchRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27573) CommandRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27573) CommandRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27574) IncomingRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27574) IncomingRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27575) NewsRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27575) NewsRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27576) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27576) OutgoingRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27577) VirginRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27577) VirginRunner qrunner exiting.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27578) RetryRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.  Stopping.
>Jan 15 10:53:18 2005 (27578) RetryRunner qrunner exiting.
>
>I checked the error logs and there's no entry for the same date/hour. Most
>certainly I didn't stop the qrunners manually. So... does the qrunners stop
>automatically after a certain time of activity? If so, where can I
>see/change that?

The qrunners aren't supposed to stop on their own in the absence of
errors. There's no time limit within Mailman. I don't think there's
anything within Mailman that would cause the above and leave
mailmanctl running. As far as I can see, the only thing that SIGTERM's
the qrunners is mailmanctl and it only does it in response to "stop"
or when otherwise exiting.

Likewise, some OS event like changing run level or ?? that would
SIGTERM all the qrunners would probably also SIGTERM mailmanctl.

Does this happen at a regular time? I.e., is it possible that there's a
crontab entry that's doing something to cause this?

I'm out of ideas.

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