The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Johann Spies <address@concealed>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:58:02PM +0100, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> Hi Johann,
> 
> My first comment concerns the version of Sympa you are running : I know 
> that Debian still distributes this old 3.x version of Sympa but, because 
> there have  been a huge amount of bugfixes in the meanwhile, I consider 
> fairly unsecure to run this version, today, in a production environment.

To upgrade sympa in a production environment is also a process that is
not without dangers!  The debian package received some
security-related patches recently.
> >1. What could have caused this behaviour of sympa not to complete it's 
> >queue?
> > 
> >
> The most basic reason would be that sympa.pl process would not be 
> running. Try a ps (or init.d/sympa status) to check this point.
> Anyway it would be a good idea to check sympa log files.

This problem has occurred again and I have found that sympa.pl is
dying regularly... :(

> 
> >2. What should an administrator like myself do in such a case?
> > 
> >
> Check if the process is running and check log files.


I fail to see in the logs why sympa.pl stopped working:

ort. However,
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: No command found in message
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Moving bad file
sympa.1108980134.28285 to bad/
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]:
DoFile(/var/spool/sympa/queue/sympa.1108980156.28451)
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Ignoring message which would cause
a loop, sent by address@concealed
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Moving bad file
sympa.1108980156.28451 to bad/
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]:
DoFile(/var/spool/sympa/queue/sympa.1108980157.28457)
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Ignoring message which would cause
a loop, sent by address@concealed
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Moving bad file
sympa.1108980157.28457 to bad/
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]:
DoFile(/var/spool/sympa/queue/pulp-lede.1108734468.29598)
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: Processing message for pulp-lede
with priority 5,
<address@concealed>
Feb 21 12:04:25 mail3 sympa[30066]: put message in
/address@concealed
Feb 21 12:04:29 mail3 archived[1571]: Archiving
address@concealed for list
address@concealed
Feb 21 12:04:29 mail3 archived[1571]: mail2arc
address@concealed for
address@concealed yyyy:2005, mm:02 dd:21 hh:12 min04 ss:25

Apparently this last mailing list (the one of which the owner
complained about sympa)  breaks it.

How can I work around this?

Regards
Johann


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Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

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