> [#[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Mar 13 2001 5:51pm from Patriot @pixel
> That's what I get each time this happens (UI have a crappy ISP.)
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Hmm. Apparently my cut and paste went horribly awry:
Mar 12 17:35:00 2001 gate_news(20198): Trace
That's what I get each time this happens (UI have a crappy ISP.)
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The error log's not showing me anything useful...nothing I didn't already
know anyhow. It shows me that the connection to my news server was
refused (they were working on it). The fromusenet log:
Mar 13 15:15:01 2001 (32476) Could not acquire gate_news lock
There's a ton of tho
I'm using 2.0.1, currently, I should have mentioned that. Thanks for
getting back so quickly. :)
What I've been seeing is this (and please note, there's not timestamp on
the lockfiles that are created, only a datestamp):
~mailman/locks/gate_news.lock ~mailman/gate_news.lock.m
Here's a little issue with the news gatewaying:
If the news server you're trying to get to is down, or is slow and having
problems mailman creates a lock file and doesn't unlock. The next time
(every 5 minutes in my case) the gateway attempts to run the lock files
are in place and it evid
A day or so ago I posted about the /tmp filling up with newsgroup files.
Since I mentioned it here that hasn't happened again, so I can't track
what the problem was. I didn't make any changes, here, or anything, so I
have NO idea what was going on. I haven't even rebooted anything.
>Gating from news to mail happens by cron/gate_news. Gating from mail
>to news happens by the ToUsenet.py handler run by the qrunner.
>Neither should be able to create root owned files (if they were owned
>by user or group `mailman', then I'd be more suspecting of a Mailm
>Hmm, I see none of these on mail.python.org which gates
>comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce (in both directions).
>Python's nntplib doesn't appear to create any temp files, so I don't
>think it's coming from there, and I'm /sure/ Mailman doesn't create
I posted this to the mailman-users group, but either I'm the only one having this
problem, or people just don't know:
I'm having an issue with 2.0.1 and news gatewaying.
It works fine, importing usenet news into e-mail and sending it out,
however /tmp is filling up with:
