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no maillist.php lock file?? [message #11252] Tue, 24 June 2003 21:59 Go to next message
Tobias Eigen is currently offline  Tobias Eigen   United States
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Hi Protoss,

I just made an unfortunate discovery: there appears to be no lock file for maillist.php. I've been running commands like this for the last few hours:

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cat /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/debate.mbox/debate.mbox | formail -s php -f /home/httpd/vhosts/kabissa.org/httpdocs/team/forum-data/scripts/maillist.ph p debate(at)lists(dot)kabissa(dot)org


These are pretty big mbox files, so this tends to run for about 30-45 minutes for each forum.

Sadly, I think I've corrupted the forum files in the process because when people post to a list at the same time and maillist.php is called to archive that message, they both write to the forum files at the same time. At least this is what it looks like because I've now got topics containing messages from other topics.

Is there a way to prevent this using lock files or something similar? I don't think I'll be able to rescue my database for now, since I've now imported more than 3000 messages and can't really be sure how many have worked correctly! So I'll be starting over. Live and learn. Smile Good thing I've got these MBOX files to work with..

How do I clear out the topics completely? I seem to only be able to do it up until today using the topic pruning option - how do I delete today's messages too?

Cheers,

Tobias


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Re: no maillist.php lock file?? [message #11254 is a reply to message #11252] Wed, 25 June 2003 00:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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First of all you have a feature called thread prunning (Admin control pane;), that allows you to delete topics/message from a particular forum or category.

mailing list code actually uses forum's internal database locks, so running more then 1 is perfectly fine.


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Re: no maillist.php lock file?? [message #11255 is a reply to message #11254] Wed, 25 June 2003 00:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Tobias Eigen is currently offline  Tobias Eigen   United States
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Hi Protoss -

So what explains the fact that the messages got mixed up?

I'm not able to prune anything newer than 1 day. I've tried putting a 0 in that field, but it then doesn't do anything.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Cheers,

Tobias


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Re: no maillist.php lock file?? [message #11258 is a reply to message #11255] Wed, 25 June 2003 12:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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You can put a float, for example 0.1 or 0.01 etc...

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Re: no maillist.php lock file?? [message #11259 is a reply to message #11258] Wed, 25 June 2003 12:41 Go to previous message
Tobias Eigen is currently offline  Tobias Eigen   United States
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ah - sweet. that worked.

that's a bit of useful information to add to the docs, methinks. Smile

cheers,

tobias


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