On Monday 18 April 2005 12:11 pm, Dan D Niles wrote: > Larry Rosenman writes: > > On Monday 18 April 2005 02:10 am, Jim Tittsler wrote: > > > On Apr 15, 2005, at 12:22, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > > I have 178MEG of bounce-events-* files in my /data directory. > > > > > > > > Should these files be hanging around? > > > > > > No. It sounds like either: > > > - your bounce queue runner isn't running > > > > It had been crashing, due to the Python 2.4.* issues. Now fixed. > > My bounce queue runner dies so often that I had to change MAX_RESTARTS > from 10 to 100. I also have a script that restarts mailman every day. > I've had the bounce runner die as often as 41 times in one day.
It's Mailman 2.1.5 not totally liking some tightening of the strftime() argument checking in Python 2.4+ > > Was the issue causing the bounce runner to crash fixed in a newer > version of python? If so, what version was the fix introduced in? It's fixed in **MAILMAN** 2.1.6RC, or you can look back at last weeks archives of this list for a patch (I needed to patch one of the CGI's as well). > > Are the extra files a result of the bounce runner crashing, or a > result of me restarting Mailman every day? > > [clip] > > > > I'd be inclined to just delete the old bounces (since some of them may > > > be stale by now) and restart Mailman. > > What determines if they are stale? I don't understand the details of > the way the bounce events are handled. I think that every 15 minutes > (by default) Mailman processes the pending bounce events, but what > determines what events are pending? Does mailman keep a list of those > somewhere? Or does Mailman just look for files named > bounce-events-*.pck? I'd like to get the answer to this as well (I've cleaned up the mess at the moment, but...) -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-351-4152 E-Mail: [email protected] US Mail: 3535 Gaspar Drive, Dallas, TX 75220-3611 ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
