This thread is getting too convoluted for me to parse, but here's the complete story:
There are two possible places where Mailman's crontab can be installed. For purposes of discussion, assume the Mailman user on your server is 'mailman'. - The crontab can be a user crontab in /var/spool/cron/mailman or maybe /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mailman. This can be installed by sudo cp /path/to/mailman/cron/crontab.in /var/spool/cron/mailman (or to /var/spool/cron/crontabs/mailman after verifying the place) or better because you don't need to know the destination sudo crontab -u mailman < /path/to/mailman/cron/crontab.in - the crontab can be a system crontab in /etc/cron.d/. The file name is not important but is usually 'mailman' for documentation reasons. Because these crontabs do not have a user context, the format is different. There is an additional field between the days/times and the command which is the user under which to run the command. Mailman's cron/crontab.in (as distributed by the GNU Mailman project) does not have this field. Thus, if you were to install /path/to/mailman/cron/crontab.in directly in say /etc/cron.d/mailman you would need to edit it to change lines like 0 8 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /var/MM/21/cron/checkdbs to 0 8 * * * mailman /usr/bin/python -S /var/MM/21/cron/checkdbs The important thing is there should be only one of these two possible crontabs. It doesn't really matter which, but if you have both, you'll run all the crons twice which will result in duplicate emails being sent to users and list owners. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
