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[Marco Gaiarin <address@concealed>]

Mandi! David Verdin
  In chel di` si favelave...

Sorry for the late answer, i was busy; anyway in the meantime i've upgraded
all my debian sympa setup, and *all* of them expose the same behaviour.

> So we need to guess. Here are a few things to check:

OK.


>  * Sympa calls the mhonarc command line on a file located in the
>    outgoing spool. Does the outgoing spool has the good rights? You can
>    stop the archived.pl daemon and see what you find in the spools,

I've send a test message in a list, and log say:

 Oct 30 21:05:04 eraldo sympa[18535]: main::DoFile() Processing 
/var/spool/sympa/msg/listname.1383163503.18577 ; sender: Marco Gaiarin 
<gaio@listdomain>#012 ; message-id: <address@concealed>#012
 Oct 30 21:05:04 eraldo sympa[18535]: main::DoMessage() Processing message 
for listname with priority 5, <address@concealed>#012
 Oct 30 21:05:04 eraldo sympa[18535]: main::DoMessage() Message for listname 
from gaio@listdomain accepted (0 seconds, 1 sessions, 12 subscribers), 
message-id=<address@concealed>#012, size=1515

Spool permission is OK:

 eraldo:~# ls -la /var/spool/sympa/msg/
 totale 4
 drwxrwx--x  3 sympa sympa   16 30 ott 21.05 .
 drwxrwx--x 24 sympa sympa 4096 11 lug 12.26 ..
 drwxrwx--x  2 sympa sympa    6 19 ago 12.50 bad

but file does not exist:

 eraldo:~# ls -la /var/spool/sympa/msg/listname.1383163503.18577
 ls: impossibile accedere a /var/spool/sympa/msg/listname.1383163503.18577: 
No such file or directory

>  * Sympa has the rights to execute mhonarc command line, otherwise you
>    wouls have an explicit error. however, does mhonarc executes with
>    the right user id? It should be Sympa user id. You can check it with
>    the following command:
>      o while test 1=1; do ps -ef | grep -i mhon; sleep 1; done
>      o As soon as a message is archived, you will see the MhonArc
>        command. The process should belong to sympa.

I've restarted sympa (and so, archived.pl) and message (that was the first)
got archived with no trouble at all:

 Oct 30 23:23:22 eraldo archived[25557]: archived 6.0.1 Started
 Oct 30 23:23:28 eraldo archived[25557]: Archiving 
address@concealed for list 
address@concealed

Boh. Anyway, i've send a second message, catching mhonarc call:

 sympa    27986 27968 54 23:35 pts/0    00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl 
/usr/bin/mhonarc -add -modifybodyaddresses -addressmodifycode $4 -rcfile 
/usr/share/sympa/default/mhonarc-ressources.tt2 -outdir 
/address@concealed/2013-10 -definevars 
listname='listname' hostname=liste.listdomain yyyy=2013 mois=10 
yyyymm=2013-10 wdir=/var/lib/sympa/wwsarchive 
base=http://liste.listdomain/wws/arc tag=4bc40547a3 -umask 027

as you can see, sympa user.


>  * By any chance, could it be possible that you upgraded at the
>    beginning of the month, i.e. when Sympa needs to create a new
>    directory in the archives? It might create it correctly but, for
>    some reason, return an error code. This could explain why the error
>    shows up only once per list.

No. The first listserver i upgrade was a rather busy server, surely this is
not the case.


> Last question: what version of MHonArc do you use? You can check it with 
> /usr/bin/mhonarc -v

Sure:

 eraldo:~# mhonarc -v
  MHonArc v2.6.16 (Perl 5.010001 linux)
  Copyright (C) 1995-2005  Earl Hood, address@concealed
  MHonArc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and MHonArc may be copied only
  under the terms of the GNU General Public License, which may be found in
  the MHonArc distribution.

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