On 04/21/2015 09:32 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: >> # This file is copied to /etc/cron.d/mailman from >> # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in when the mailman service is started via >> its >> # init.d script and the file /etc/cron.d/mailman is removed when the >> # service is stopped. Therefore any edits made directly to >> # /etc/cron.d/mailman will be lost anytime the mailman service >> # restarts. > > I think this needs to be revisited. I don't believe Mailman does this > anymore. Mark, does a bug need to be filed on this?
This is a packager thing (RHEL/CentOS ?). Mailman as distributed by the GNU Mailman project does not do this (never did). Our docs are <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node41.html> and recommend installing our crontab as a user crontab with the crontab command. ... > The bottom line is that it's best, as always, to install a component > such as a crontab using the supplied tools rather trying to second-guess > the tool set and copying files directly. +1 -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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