Glenn Sieb wrote: > >I was just looking in my mailman/data directory and noticed that I have >155 of these bounce-events-#####.pck files taking up about 24 meg of >space there. > >They date back as far as January 18th of this year. Are these garbage >files? Unprocessed bounce messages? What does one do with these--I >didn't see anything on the FAQ or FAQ-wizard...
Yes, they are mostly if not all garbage and yes, they contain unprocessed bounce messages. The ##### in bounce-events-#####.pck is the pid of the bounce runner that wrote the file. Here are comments from BounceRunner.py describing the file: # Registering a bounce means acquiring the list lock, and it would be # too expensive to do this for each message. Instead, each bounce # runner maintains an event log which is essentially a file with # multiple pickles. Each bounce we receive gets appended to this file # as a 4-tuple record: (listname, addr, today, msg) # # today is itself a 3-tuple of (year, month, day) # # Every once in a while (see _doperiodic()), the bounce runner cracks # open the file, reads all the records and registers all the bounces. # Then it truncates the file and continues on. We don't need to lock # the bounce event file because bounce qrunners are single threaded # and each creates a uniquely named file to contain the events. If the pid is not that of a running bounce runner, the file is dead and can be deleted. Presumably, these dead files can come about if the bounce runner dies or mailman is stopped or restarted when a non-empty file exists. The contents of these files can be examined with bin/dumpdb. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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