[Xymon] Mailing list outage

[Josh Luthman]

All good sir :)

I know some Xymon users send an email and check that the message made it
all the way through (graylists, smtp, pop, imap, etc) and alert if it
didn't within say 15 minutes.


Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Henrik Størner via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
wrote:

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> From: "Henrik Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk>
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> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:44:50 +0200
> Subject: Mailing list outage
> Hi,
>
> my apologies for the mailing list being out of order. It seems that
> mailman crashed on April 1st (no, not an April Fools joke) and that caused
> messages for the mailing list to just go into a queue without being
> processed.
>
> By virtue of Mr Murphy this coincided with my being almost offline due to
> travel and holidays.
>
> My Xymon process monitoring should have alerted me to this, but apparently
> one of the Xymon extensions runs a command containing the word "mailman",
> so it didn't spot that this process was missing :-( I'll do some
> fine-tuning on the procs check.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
>
>
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