Dwight A. Ernest wrote: > >I neglected, however, to change the home directory for the mailman user to >the new executable path. Another sysadmin, though aware of my work, >innocently executed ~mailman/bin/genaliases, which came from the old RPM >instance. > >This caused the aliases file to grab the old path to the '.../mail/mailman >post' programs. List postings succeeded, according to the MTA logging, but >no postings actually went out. It took almost 24 hours for the problem to be >noticed, but only a few minutes to put it right. > >In the meantime, over 200 posted messages were lost. I can't find any trace >of them in the qfiles directory. If possible, I'd love to find them and >process them under the patched MM instance. I don't understand what happened >to them. It seems to me that if the data repository was shared between the >two executables instances, there should be a good chance that they were >processed. I can find no trace in either the RPM-related log files, nor the >patched-source-related log files.
Since it's a RedHat rpm, have you looked in /var/spool/mailman/in ? See <http://wiki.list.org/x/KYCB>. Presumably the only qrunners that were running were the ones for the "working" installation so the posts have to be in the "in/" queue of the RPM instance. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
