Dan Mick wrote: > What you're seeing is that the lock file timestamp is in the future, > and that's by design; the file timestamp is used as the 'expiration > time' to break stale locks. It's normal behavior. Do you think it's > causing problems? > > (This 'feature' of ls is not well known, but that's what it does for > times in the future.)
that was what i thought (the future timestamp). however on other installations of mailman i hadn't noticed this (although now that i look, all of the locks on the other machines are pretty old, so perhaps time caught up with them...). in any event, i wasn't sure if this was the problem; however removing the locks generally fixes the problems (ie messages on the list won't appear and after removing the locks, they do). in any event, i suspect either nfs problems or something weird with debian's installation. also, some of the config files and all of the archive / mbox files are from an older installation of mailman, so it's possible that something's screwed up that way. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py