[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#505638: Bug#505638: mailman: Mailman dies on log rotation

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Robert Henney wrote:

> This bug took my mailman down this last Sunday.  In fact, you'll notice
> that reports of this bug appear to indicate that it only occurs 
> during Sunday morning cron execution.  I believe this is because 
> the /etc/logrotate.d/mailman file is written to execute 
> two "mailmanctl -q reopen" processes at the same time on Sundays.  (so 

Oh ouch. So this might be a race condition between two
mailmanctl run at the same time, thus? Thanks for the
analysis.

bye,
//mirabilos, who won’t be able to have a look this week but says thanks
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