Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

2008-01-05 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/4/08, steve wrote: > The question is about the cron job. The documentation says to install > the contents of the supplied file into the cron job of the user mailman > > > % cd $prefix/cron > % crontab -u mailman crontab.in > Upon doing so, I got error messages from the cron job wh

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

2008-01-04 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
steve writes: > Ok, I found that if placed in /etc/cron.d the file is intended as a > crontab which has the userfield as part of the command.. so the > default crontab.in file is correct for that usage - but doesn't this > mean the documentation is INCORRECT to tell you to directly install >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

2008-01-04 Thread steve
Ok, I found that if placed in /etc/cron.d the file is intended as a crontab which has the userfield as part of the command.. so the default crontab.in file is correct for that usage - but doesn't this mean the documentation is INCORRECT to tell you to directly install that file into the mailman'

[Mailman-Users] Question on cron.in and the init.d scripts in rpm file

2008-01-04 Thread steve
Hello all, setting up mailman on linux 2.6.9 where mailman was installed I believe by a rpm file. The question is about the cron job. The documentation says to install the contents of the supplied file into the cron job of the user mailman % cd $prefix/cron % crontab -u mailman cronta