[Mailman-Users] Mailman vs OSX vs launchd

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:49 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> The reason this happens is that launchd expects the processes it  
> launches to stick around. They must not daemonize. But mailmanctl  
> terminates after it has started the runners. I assume that Apple  
> modified their own distribution of Mailman so that mailmanctl  
> behaves differently. I'd suggest comparing the two.

FWIW in MM3, the two functions of mailmanctl have been split into two  
separate scripts. bin/master is the master queue runner watcher script  
and it does not daemonize.  bin/mailmanctl is simply the control  
interface to master and it does daemonize.  There may not be too much  
Mailman3-ish about the new scripts so it could be backported (though   
it probably requires Python 2.6 or possibly 2.5).

-Barry

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