On 1/28/2005 8:43, "Larry Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Glen Low wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I had followed the Mac OS X install instructions at >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-September/ >> 039600.html which say to install the crontab under su -- is that >> correct? should not the crontab be under the mailman user instead? > > Well, as the author of those instructions, all I can say is it works as > written and that those instructions are part of the original instructions > that I did not write but incorporated into my updated procedure. So if you > think there's a more correct way to do it, try it and let us know if it > works. > In Mac OS X (and fairly commonly elsewhere, but I don't claim everywhere), a non-privileged user can execute the crontab command fine but can't use the -u username option. So if you can become the mailman user you could run the command that way...or run it as root using -u, or run sudo crontab -u mailman blah blah (I have had no need to enable the root account, and my Mac OS X time goes back to day 1 of 10.0). I have not installed Mailman on Mac OS X, nor used the Mailman which Apple mangles and installs in Server. ---John ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
