[Mailman-Users] list stop sending - no changes to server or mailmanin months

[Mark Sapiro]

John Adamski wrote:

>Mailman stopped sending messages sometime within the last 24 hours for
>reason it's keeping a secret.
>
>Mailman 2.1.4
>Postfix 
>Python 2.3
>
>On a SuSE Linix I think 2.6.5-7.145 is correct version.
>
>I have validated everything in
>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp is
>right.  And it looks like it is.  On locks I only have the master-lock
>which seems to valid, well it was there after I stopped and started
>mailman using mailmanctl.  I even rebooted the server and still not
>working.
>
>Below are the logs that I could find, it seems like it might have
>stopped around 11:57 today.  Anyone have an idea what to check or what
>might be wrong?
>
>John
>
>
>Error log
<nothing relevant>
>
>Post log
<last post>
>May 16 09:10:53 2006 (5581) post to cac-l from lighthil at graceland.edu,
>size=13339,
>message-id=<EA9B1801BA3A584887D7D4AB70DC30B00B15D4C0 at athena.graceland.ed
>u>, success
>


qrunner log ...

>Dec 18 01:22:06 2005 (5580) NewsRunner qrunner started.
>Dec 18 01:22:06 2005 (5581) OutgoingRunner qrunner started.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5576) ArchRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5576) ArchRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5577) BounceRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5577) BounceRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5578) CommandRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5578) CommandRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5579) IncomingRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5579) IncomingRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5580) NewsRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5580) NewsRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5581) OutgoingRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5581) OutgoingRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5582) VirginRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5582) VirginRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master watcher caught SIGTERM.  Exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5583) RetryRunner qrunner caught SIGTERM.
>Stopping.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5583) RetryRunner qrunner exiting.
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5580, sig: None, sts: 15, class: NewsRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5581, sig: None, sts: 15, class: OutgoingRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5582, sig: None, sts: 15, class: VirginRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5583, sig: None, sts: 15, class: RetryRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5579, sig: None, sts: 15, class: IncomingRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5577, sig: None, sts: 15, class: BounceRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5578, sig: None, sts: 15, class: CommandRunner, slice: 1/1)
>May 17 11:57:34 2006 (5575) Master qrunner detected subprocess exit
>(pid: 5576, sig: None, sts: 15, class: ArchRunner, slice: 1/1)


The runners all received SIGTERM - from what/where is the question.

Presumably, there are more entries from your stop/start/reboot.

>SMTP log
<old messages through>
>May 17 09:12:39 2006 (5581)
><mailman.0.1147875157.14018.todd-l at loki.graceland.edu> smtp for 1
>recips, completed in 0.058 seconds

And these (an owner notification?) are apparently subsequent to
restarting the queue runners.

>May 17 12:16:14 2006 (5199)
><mailman.0.1147886172.5859.alert-l at graceland.edu> smtp for 1 recips,
>completed in 0.211 seconds
>May 17 12:16:14 2006 (5199)
><mailman.1.1147886172.5859.alert-l at graceland.edu> smtp for 2 recips,
>completed in 0.045 seconds

Is your MTA delivering to Mailman? Check the Postfix logs.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan