[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#505638: Bug#505638: mailman: Mailman dies on log rotation
Thorsten Glaser
t.glaser at tarent.de
Wed Oct 24 08:22:28 UTC 2012
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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Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh-
ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant
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in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C"
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