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 > -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto....... http://works.music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas ------------------------------------------------------ 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