Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/lib/mailman/archives/private 90% full
So I go in and manually gzip the listname.mbox/listname.mbox file, but that doesn't stop the growth. ... - Sandi Forgive me if I'm barking up the wrong sequoia here... Do you mean that even though you've archived your files the amount of filespace is still above 90%? If so, that could be because the Mailman processes themselves are holding the location of the ends of the files so that it can write to them. It may be holding files open so that it can continuously write to them as and when it needs to. As such, even if you reduced the actual file length to zero bytes then a process would be holding open an X megabyte image of the file so the O/S would see it as X megabytes in use. I'd suggest arranging a little downtime and using the startup script, shutdown Mailman and then start it up again. This should only need a minute or two at the most. It should cause the various qrunner processes to close any files they may have open and then re-open them. This may reclaim the unused space that is marked as in use but isnt. Regards, Steff Watkins [What? No footer containg amusing quotes from HHGTTG?] -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/lib/mailman/archives/private 90% full
Sandi Gruver wrote: It's not clear to me even after reading MM archive posts how to contain this filesystem - /var/lib/mailman/archives/private. So I go in and manually gzip the listname.mbox/listname.mbox file, but that doesn't stop the growth. No, and if I understand correctly, you now have a relatively useless listname.mbox/listname.mbox file containing a gzipped mbox with additional text appended to it. Yesterday I read about not gzipping the listname/2009-December.txt files so turned that off in mailman's cron. But ... 104 lists on RedHat EL4 server. Thank you for simple, clear ideas, I'm not a programmer nor much of a techie. If you don't have enough storage to support your archives, perhaps you should either get more or turn archiving off. The point of an archive is to archive messages. By its nature, it grows with time. Now that you're not gzipping the periodic .txt files, you can do rm /path/to/archives/private/*/*.txt.gz to remove all the old, redundant gzipped files. If you want to delete older messages from the pipermail archive, you can do something like, e.g. rm -r /path/to/archives/private/*/1997* rm -r /path/to/archives/private/*/attachments/1997* rm -r /path/to/archives/private/*/database/1997* This will remove all of 1997. The only problem is that the archive table of contents will still have links to those nonexistent pages. Another method is to edit the /path/to/archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox files and remove older messages from the beginning of the file leaving only the newer messages at the end, and then run Mailman's bin/arch --wipe listname. This will leave a consistent archive, but it will renumber all the messages and break any saved links or links in archived messages to other archived messages. -- Mark Sapiro m...@msapiro.netThe highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/lib/mailman/archives/private 90% full
On 25/02/2010 10:27, Sandi Gruver wrote: Dear Sirs, It's not clear to me even after reading MM archive posts how to contain this filesystem - /var/lib/mailman/archives/private. So I go in and manually gzip thelistname.mbox/listname.mbox file, but that doesn't stop the growth. Yesterday I read about not gzipping thelistname/2009-December.txt files so turned that off in mailman's cron. But ... 104 lists on RedHat EL4 server. Thank you for simple, clear ideas, I'm not a programmer nor much of a techie. - Sandi Hello, What I think is that your 104 lists are set-up to archive messages. After a while your partition /var (if setup independant) becomes too small to handle all the messages archives. The only thing you have to do is the contact the system administrator of the server that handles your lists and ask him/her to increase the /var partition size. off-topic : that's not that easy as I would need to do it on one server ... Nicolas Canonne -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] /var/lib/mailman/archives/private 90% full
On 2/24/2010 3:27 PM, Sandi Gruver wrote: So I go in and manually gzip thelistname.mbox/listname.mbox file, but that doesn't stop the growth. Yesterday I read about not gzipping thelistname/2009-December.txt files so turned that off in mailman's cron. But ... The only way to stop an archive from growing is to stop archiving messages. You could, however, edit the archive mbox to remove old messages and regenerate the pages. Check out- http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030681 and http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7602232 You could also move the archives to a bigger file system, but doesn't eliminate the problem, it just puts it off. z! -- 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
