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RE: [cobalt-users] lost posts?



>} Are they on vacation?
>} Perhaps Cobalt might want to give a call to Sparky over on
>} isplists.com for some List Admin tips.  At least even with
>} a 4-5 day delay the lists here are more reliable
>
>	I'm posting this for Cobalt's benefit as it is possible they
>are not aware of this particular "feature" of Mailman - it took me a
>while to figure it out and I probably would have given up long
>before I found the solution if I wasn't desperately trying to stop a
>client from bailing...
>
>	If cron is working properly (Mailman won't function without
>a working and smooth running cron), delays such as this are caused
>by stale lock files which in turn are caused by list administrators
>who don't logout from the admin pages (HINT). Putting everything
>back in order is as easy as shutting Mailman down then going into
>.../mailman/locks/ and deleting everything found within. After doing
>so, it's also a good idea to go into ../mailman/qfiles/ and delete
>any and all broken message parts, ie: file size 0 with a date of way
>back when... or a half without the other half. Fire Mailman back and
>make the admins logout and all will then live happily ever after.

You da man Brent. Another great post for the private local KB.
Would these Mailman 'features' have something to do with this TwilightZone feature on the 
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