[Mailman-Users] no archives, no logs after system failure

[douglas repetto]

Partially answering my own question: I've just realized that when the 
system was copied over some essential links were replaced by normal 
files. So I ended up with both a /private/var and a /var (normally on 
OSX server /var points to /private/var). So my logs/archives/etc are 
being stored in /private/var, rather than /var.

For future reference I finally figures this out by running:

lsof -u mailman

which showed me that mailman was busy writing to long files on 
/private/var, as expected. But seeing the explicit path /private/var 
instead of the normal /var got me thinking, and lead me to the problem.


best,
douglas




douglas repetto wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Our server recently had hard drive problems, and the system was copied 
> to another drive where it seems to be more or less happy.
> 
> But we're having a strange Mailman problem (Mailman 2.1.5 on OSX Server 
> 10.4.10): the lists are running, mail is being delivered, but no 
> archiving is taking place and nothing is being written to the log files. 
> The last change date for all log files is the day the original drive 
> died, as is the date of the last archived messages to our lists. 
> Otherwise all seems to be well...
> 
> Can someone help me with some ideas of where to start looking? I've run 
> out of ideas at this point. Permissions seem to be fine. Nothing is in 
> our system logs indicating a problem. I run:
> 
> roar:/var/mailman/logs root# /usr/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl stop
> Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner
> roar:/var/mailman root# /usr/share/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
> Starting Mailman's master qrunner.
> 
> With no problems, but as mentioned, the stop/start does not appear in 
> the logs.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> douglas
> 

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