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Merge "Add docs on mailman lock files"

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@ -88,3 +88,16 @@ argument to withlist. To run the same script on a single list, use:
Note that the ban list accepts regular expressions, so to ban an
address and all suffixes, use '^address.*@example.com' as the "address
to ban".
Lock Files
----------
If a list stops handling traffic for some time, it may be due to a
stale lock file. Mailman locks are in /srv/mailman/openstack/locks.
If a lock is held for a list, then ``listname.lock`` will exist. The
contents of the file will be the name of the lock sequence file which
was used to obtain the lock. That file is in the form
``listname.lock.hostname.pid.sequence``. If the process id in that
string no longer exists, it's safe to assume the process died without
cleaning up the lock. It should generally be safe to remove the
lockfile in that case.