wolfgang pauli wrote: > >I had problems getting the cronjobs to work until I found something that looks >like an error in the docs to me. >It says do "% crontab -u mailman crontab.in" to set up your cronjobs. But the >crontab.in file includes cron commands like: >0 8 * * * mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs > >So it results in the error msg (email): >Subject: [Mailman Site List] Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman >/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news >Body: /bin/sh: mailman: command not found > >I fixed that my removing "mailman" from all commands in crontab.in. E.g.: >0 8 * * * /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
You are dealing with someone's package and your issue is with the packager, not with Mailman's documentation. The standard GNU Mailman distribution crontab.in is intended to be installed as you describe which puts it in /var/spool/cron/mailman and it does NOT contain the extra 'mailman user' field because it is always run as the user that installed it. The crontab.in you have with the mailman user field is intended by the packager who created it to be installed in /etc/cron.d/ as perhaps /etc/cron.d/mailman. In this location it needs the user field to specify the user to run as. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
