Hi Everyone, Has anyone ever seen Mailman revert to an old user list? This morning we had out lists VM pounded on from India and hung the box. After blocking the ip on our firewall and rebooting the hung vm, everything came back up except 1 list. The list appears to have reverted to old settings. I found the config.pck file and it does not have the current settings in it. This has happened once before. The box is running Ubuntu 10.04 and Mailman 2.1.13. Anyone know what would cause this and how to fix it? We are working to try a file level restore from a backup. Thanks, Grant ~~~~~~~~~~ Grant Ridder Assistant Systems Administrator Milwaukee School of Engineering <http://www.msoe.edu/>
1. The mailman-users list is here: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users 2. Blocking one IP address is not usually sufficient. If you don't need email from India (or any other country for that matter) to reach that list, then you should block the entire country from that VM. See http://ipdeny.com/ for lists. ---rsk
What hung the box? Core dump? Filled up var? On May 23, 2013 11:57 AM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Has anyone ever seen Mailman revert to an old user list? This morning we had out lists VM pounded on from India and hung the box. After blocking the ip on our firewall and rebooting the hung vm, everything came back up except 1 list. The list appears to have reverted to old settings. I found the config.pck file and it does not have the current settings in it. This has happened once before. The box is running Ubuntu 10.04 and Mailman 2.1.13. Anyone know what would cause this and how to fix it? We are working to try a file level restore from a backup.
Thanks, Grant
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Grant Ridder
Assistant Systems Administrator
Milwaukee School of Engineering <http://www.msoe.edu/>
Hi, I received a couple offlist replies. To answer Phil's questions, iptables appeared to have spiked the cpu to 100% and caused it to overload and become unresponsive. Var was lot filled up to my knowledge. An offlist reply suggested that if the config.pck file gets corrupted, then mailman will revert to using an old config.db file. After doing a file level restore of the appropriate config.pck file, the list returned to normal. Thanks, Grant On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Phil Fagan <philfagan@gmail.com> wrote:
What hung the box? Core dump? Filled up var? On May 23, 2013 11:57 AM, "Grant Ridder" <shortdudey123@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Has anyone ever seen Mailman revert to an old user list? This morning we had out lists VM pounded on from India and hung the box. After blocking the ip on our firewall and rebooting the hung vm, everything came back up except 1 list. The list appears to have reverted to old settings. I found the config.pck file and it does not have the current settings in it. This has happened once before. The box is running Ubuntu 10.04 and Mailman 2.1.13. Anyone know what would cause this and how to fix it? We are working to try a file level restore from a backup.
Thanks, Grant
~~~~~~~~~~
Grant Ridder
Assistant Systems Administrator
Milwaukee School of Engineering <http://www.msoe.edu/>
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