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CS_ROOT /home/csuite; CS_DIST /home/tmp/csdist
Long description of testing mail list activity with problems encountered.
1. IP application for 'support' (ip-1002) created list in
landon:/home/csuite/etc/majordomo/lists
landon:/home/csuite/etc/majordomo/lists# ls -l support*
-rw-rw-r-T 1 custom root 7 Apr 13 17:16 support
-rw-rw---- 1 custom root 12358 Apr 13 17:16 support.config
-rw-rw-r-T 1 custom root 187 Apr 13 17:16 support.info
-rw-rw-r-T 1 custom root 93 Apr 13 17:16 support.resend
2. automatic mail sent to user custom
a.
Subject: TCSDS IP Application for support
IP application acknowledgement
b.
Subject: Welcome to support
acknowledgement of subscription to 'support' mail list
3. automatic mail sent to ip-admin@landon aliased to user csuite
a.
Subject: IP request: support
with submissions date, contact info and database information
b.
Subject: Majordomo results
automated approval by user csuite of subscribe to list 'support' for user
custom (>>>> approve password_goes_here subscribe support custom
Succeeded.)
4.
a. from landon user junior subscribes to support by sending mail to majordomo
with:
subscribe support junior
end
in message body
b. Subject: Majordomo results
user junior successfully subscribed to list
PROBLEM 1 user junior not added to list support
landon:/home/csuite/etc/majordomo/lists# cat support
custom
5. sent test message from user junior to list support@landon.chebucto.ns.ca
user junior still waiting to hear back. see PROBLEM 1
6. locally added junior to list support
landon:/home/csuite/etc/majordomo/lists# echo junior >>support
landon:/home/csuite/etc/majordomo/lists# cat support
custom
junior
7. repeated step 5.
all subscribed to list 'support' still waiting for mail from junior.
8.
a.
Checked router log at CS_ROOT/log/mail/router and found this as initial
entry :
start newaliases... 40 aliases, longest 59 bytes, 656 bytes total
mv: /home/csuite/etc/mail/db/aliases.dat: No such file or directory
mv: /home/csuite/etc/mail/db/aliases.idx: No such file or directory
start newfqdnaliases... 1 aliases, longest 42 bytes, 42 bytes total
mv: /home/csuite/etc/mail/db/fqdnaliases.dat: No such file or directory
mv: /home/csuite/etc/mail/db/fqdnaliases.idx: No such file or directory
b. checked scheduler log
scheduler: scheduler daemon (2.99.46 #1: Sun Apr 13 13:48:11 ADT 1997)
pid 23312 started at Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:54:16 -0300
bind:mailq socket: Address already in use
Synchronous startup completed, messages: 0 (0 skipped) recipients: 0
***********************************************************************
bind:mailq socket: Address already in use
bind:mailq socket: Address already in use
[snip]
9.
a. executed
landon:/home/csuite/etc/mail/bin# ./zmailer kill scheduler
kill scheduler...
b. executed
landon:/home/csuite/etc/mail/bin# ./zmailer scheduler
scheduler...
>From scheduler log
scheduler: exit(0): signal
scheduler: scheduler daemon (2.99.46 #1: Sun Apr 13 13:48:11 ADT 1997)
pid 30386 started at Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:03:32 -0300
Synchronous startup completed, messages: 0 (0 skipped) recipients: 0
***********************************************************************
10.
Sent mail again to support and then checked all files on system that had
been touched since mail was sent. These included
./home/csuite/etc/mail/forms/delivery
./home/csuite/etc/mail/bin/ta/mailbox
./home/csuite/etc/mail/bin/sendmail
./home/csuite/etc/zmailer.conf
but no other obvious mail related ones.
--
David Murdoch
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