On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Scott Thomas wrote:
> I've been using majordomo 1.94 quite happily for some months now. We
> have one list with about 1800 addresses which mails approximately
> every 3 days.
>
> Yesterday I had reason to manually inspect the list, and found 24
> names on the list. There is no evidence of a break-in (we don't allow
> shell accounts), and no indication in the logs of what may have
> happened.
>
> Naturally, the list-owner is pretty unhappy. Any idea what may have
> happened, and what can be done to (a) resurrect the list and/or (b)
> prevent this from happening again?
Have had this happen a couple of times. Usually, it is indicative
of a full file system while someone is trying to subscribe/unsubscribe from
the list.
You can *check* the Log file that majordomo creates and use that
to resurrect as much of the list as possible (have done that once), but
I would recommend setting up a 'backup' procedure for your lists. I've
got mine setup so that once nightly, it copies the lists to a seperate
directory with a filename of 'list.<date>', so that I have a daily
backup of the current list to fall back onto...just in case
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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