Thank you Mark for your help. I found my Mailman logs, and discovered that in fact the problem was due to permissions. A few of the files in shunt were messages to a list that no longer exists. I deleted these out manually, corrected the file permissions, then ran unshunt. The archive now shows the messages I mentioned in my original message below. I did however, notice that after I change permissions (I'm doing this from a Windows SCP tool), my changes don't appear to "stick". I'm logging in as root. Should I be changing permissions another way? What should be the file and directory permissions in the Archives structure?
-Jeff >>> Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> 3/10/2009 1:08 PM >>> Jeff Bernier wrote: > >I 've noticed several files in my shunt folder. when I run show_qfiles, I see >that they are messages to one of my lists. I have contacted the list >owner/moderator, and this person tells me messages to the list are going out >just fine... although I do not see any recent messages in the list archive. So the messages were probably shunted during archiving. If you examine the queue entries with bin/dumpdb instead of bin/show_qfiles, you will see the metadata as the second object and the 'whichq' attribute will tell you which queue and hence which Runner shunted the message. >A quick search tells me to look at my Mailman log to see why these messages >were put in the Shunt Queue. I cannot find my Mailman log. There does not >appear to be any such file. The same directory that contains bin/* and qfiles/* probably contains logs/*. Look there for the 'error' log. If it isn't there, it might be in /var/log/mailman/. >My questions are: > >How can I get at my log file, or setup logging for Mailman? See above. >Are these messages being put into shunt possibly because of a file permissions >problem? Possibly. You need to see the errors. >What should I do with the files in shunt? After fixing the underlying problem, run bin/unshunt. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
