[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#505638: Bug#505638: Bug#505638: mailman: Mailman dies on log rotation

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Wed, January 7, 2015 18:33, Jérôme wrote:
>> This posting to Mailman-Users could be related:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg60891.html
>
> Indeed. The post is mine, and I reference this bug in it.
>
> This occurred again recently, so searched once more.
>
> Some solutions are proposed here :
>
> http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030580
>
> It involves modifying logrotate configuration.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not qualified to tell which solution is the best fit for
> the Debian package, but I'd be happy if one of these could do the trick
> and make it into the package.

Well, that page contains a collection of approaches to do it, and we
implement many things that are mentioned on the page.

The observation in this bug log that it may be a race condition because
two snippets are executed at the same time may be relevant. Do you also
experience this bug only on Sundays?


Cheers,
Thijs