On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:15:46 -0800
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hugo Villeneuve wrote:
> >
> > I'm using fcron to schedule the mailman jobs. I configured fcron to run
> > the mailman jobs as the mailman user (fcrontab -u mailman...). I also
> > created the mailman user with no login shell (/bin/false), similar to what
> > is suggested in the mailman installation manual.
> >
> > When the mailman jobs are run by fcron, an exit status of 1 is
> > returned. I have found that if I replace the "/bin/false" shell entry with
> > "/bin/sh" for the mailman user in the /etc/passwd file, fcron correctly
> > runs the mailman jobs.
> >
> > What can be wrong with my setup?
>
> The installation manual assumes you'll use cron.
>
> fcron by default runs commands using the user's login shell from
> /etc/passwd. Thus you have to either specify a valid shell in
> /etc/passwd or override it by assigning to SHELL in the crontab.
In the fcron configuration file, I have already this line for the shell:
shell = /bin/sh
Are there any people using fcron and having success runnin mailman jobs under
the mailman user ID, and without having to specify a login shell in /etc/passwd?
Hugo.
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