On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Larry Stone wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Jason Pruim wrote: > >> I have looked around on the web and haven't found any info that I >> understand about making sure that mailman is receiving and sending e- >> mail that is sent into it. I just had a situation where on my site >> (With real low volume lists) that it was not sending mail since the >> 11 >> of december... >> >> Would it be best to watch for the qrunner process and make sure >> that's >> running? Or is there a better way? I'm planning on writing this >> into a >> Widget (For all you Macintosh people out there) if I can find a good >> way to make sure this is up and running. > > Is this for Mac OS X? It's not clear although you made the reference > to > Macintoshes above. > > I don't know anything about writing OS X widgets but as I've had an > issue > with Mailman not starting reliably under Leopard, I set up a cron > job to > run hourly and let me know if all the qrunners aren't there. It's > pretty > simple: > > #!/bin/sh > QRUNNERS=`ps -efw | grep -v grep | grep -c Python | awk '{ print > $1 }'` > > if [ $QRUNNERS != 9 ] ; then > { > echo "Mailman qrunner problem" | /usr/sbin/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > } > fi > > Note that despite the "sendmail" command used there, that's really > Postfix > as Postfix used the command "sendmail" (for Sendmail compatibility) > as a > means of injecting mail. Note also that as written, the mail message > will > be missing all RFC required headers but as it's going to myself, I > don't > care. You could, of course, do something else there to provide > notification. > > -- Larry Stone > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Larry, Thanks for the response. The server in question is a Mac OS X Server 10.4.11(Tiger) server. I will definitely look into that code, and see if I could incorporate that into my widget (Writing widgets in Leopard is pretty easy if you know what you want to do!) -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ 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