We had the same problem when we set both the digest_maxdays and the
digest_maxlines variables. It seems that the Major didn't like both being
used. Perhaps a change was made recently to use both?
-- Bryan
Joe Hartley wrote:
>
> After a year or more off the list, it's back to the pool of knowledge
> for me!
>
> The details: MD 1.94.5 on a Linux box of unknown flavor (possibly
> slackware 7.0.0, can't tell for sure), perl 5.6.0
>
> The problem: the system is sending out one digest per post to a list
> I run called tft. It used to work fine, but the host has undergone
> some changes lately and now I've got this problem.
>
> The aliases seem fine:
>
> tft: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l tft tft-outgoing"
> tft-outgoing: tft-outbound, tft-archive, tft-digestify
> ## Archive
> tft-archive: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl -m -a -f /usr/local/majo
> rdomo/lists/tft.archive"
> # Digest
> tft-digestify: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper digest -r -C -l tft-digest tft-dig
> est-outgoing"
> tft-digest: tft
> tft-digest-outgoing: "|/usr/local/bin/bulk_mailer -maxdomains 1 tft-owner@braini
> ac.com /usr/local/majordomo/lists/tft-digest"
>
> The settings in tft-digest.config looks good:
>
> digest_issue = 1
> digest_maxdays = 3
> digest_maxlines = 25000
> digest_volume = 2
>
> Even the smallest posts generate a new digest!
>
> When the host machine was having problems, the /usr/local/majordomo hierarchy
> was restored from backup a number of times. It finally got moved from the
> unstable SCSI drives to an IDE drive, and was restored one last time. When
> this happening, the restoration was giving incorrect permissions to the
> directories in the majordomo hierarchy, and the digest wasn't working
> at all for a while! I've got it back to the point where it now sends
> messages, but one per post.
>
> Any clues???
>
> PS: while I was writing this, I may have found the problem. There were a
> couple of old files in the work directory:
>
> (36) root@endless:/usr/local/majordomo/digest-work/tft-digest# ls -l
> total 8
> -rw-rw---- 1 majordom daemon 1514 May 25 08:50 001
> -rw-rw---- 1 majordom daemon 2297 May 26 22:25 005
>
> Has anyone seen this cause trouble?
>
> Many thanks in advance for the help!
>
> ======================================================================
> Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@brainiac.com
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> Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa
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