[TriLUG] Mailman loosing messages

[Jon Carnes]

This has come up on the Mailman list a few times.  What distro are you
using?  I would check to see if there is an update for the Cron you are
running.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Merrill" <cmerrill at nc.rr.com>
To: "trilug" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:06 AM
Subject: [TriLUG] Mailman loosing messages


> I've been running Mailman with Postfix for a few
> months now.  I have one list that has been running
> with daily traffic - no problems.  Another that I
> setup last week.  Both were working until yesterday
> afternoon.  Since then, it has become a roach motel:
> Messages check in -- they don't check out.
>
> After some diagnosis - I found that cron had not
> not been running the mailman jobs.  Running
> "service crond status" indicated that cron was running.
> Logging in as the mailman user and doing 'crontab -l'
> listed the necessary jobs - so it was still configured
> correctly.
>
> After restarting crond - everything is now working
> fine.
>
> Any ideas what happened?  Has anyone run into this
> situation?  Should I be periodically restarting
> cron?  (that would be ironic, huh?)
>
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