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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> > > > > 4. tried a /home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl - and it seemed to start, so 
> > > > > then stopped it and did a /home/rc3.d/sympa start and everything 
> > > > > seemed to start, but archived stops immediately (which it's been 
> > > > > doing lately - I expect something is locked or corrupted - ANY 
> > > > > SUGGESTIONS?)
> > > > Check your log files or try to restart it.
> > > Unfortunately, I've done this - both under Sympa 3.4.4.3 and under 
> > > the newly upgraded 5.2.1 install.
> > >
> > > Even at debug level 4, archived starts, then almost immediately 
> > > stops - leaving no messages in the log.
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on where to look for locks, corruption, diagnostic 
> > > ideas, ....?
> > Made some progress on this.  Tried running archived.pl -d, getting 
> > the following output before it exits:
> >
> > [sympa@xel008 bin]$ ./archived.pl -d
> > queue : /home/sympa/spool/outgoing
> > Modification of a read-only value attempted at 
> > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux/Sys/Syslog.pm line 312, 
> > <REMOVE> line 1.
> >
> > Looks like archived is making a call into Syslog.pm with data that 
> > causes Syslog.pm to fail in an unclean manner.
> >
> > Miles
> did some web searching, found out that syslog.pm doesn't like things 
> that have a "%" in them
>
> found a .remove. files in  /home/sympa/spool/outgoing/ containing this:
> address@concealed
>
> removed the file, restarted archived.d and it sure seems to be doing a 
> lot of work - probably catching up on a lot of stuff - the next 
> question is whether it's also converting archives - we'll see
>
> meanwhile: do you know if this problem goes away with later versions 
> of Syslog.pm, or is this something that Sympa should screen for?
looks like the message was actually deleted, but logging failed:
looks like a message id containing a % can screw up archived.pl
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Miles