From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20327 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2001 22:04:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20291 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2001 22:04:23 -0000 Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 11:49:00 -0000 From: Jason Molenda To: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: mhonarc barfage, web archiving of all mailing lists is now disabled Message-ID: <20011112140414.A8544@shell17.ba.best.com> References: <20011112133639.A5377@shell17.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011112133639.A5377@shell17.ba.best.com>; from jason-swarelist@molenda.com on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:36:39PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00015.txt.bz2 On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:36:39PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote: > Something bad has happened with mhonarc over the last twelve hours > and I've had to turn off archiving. > > I don't know if it's a bug with mhonarc, a bug with the new locking > system I enabled, or a system problem that caused one of these two > to fail. But the web archives for at least gcc-patches and cygwin > are corrupted so that running mhonarc on those lists will cause > them to run without end. Small correction, I don't think it was the new locking system I was using. mhonarc was still making its own locks unnecessarily, which would prevent two mhonarcs running at the same time. (running two of them at the same time would cause the sort of confused list archives we were seeing today). J