On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 12:07 -0700, Jon Jacobsen wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a Redhat rpm mailman-2.1.5-23 on a Redhat enterprise server. > The mailman appears to be working, but I'm having problems with cron. > When the job run root posts to the 'mailman' list I created the following: > > /bin/sh: line 1: mailman: command not found > > I have no errors with 'check_perms' and /etc/cron.d/mailman looks fine. > I can run: > > #su - mailman -c "/var/mailman/cron/gate_news" > > without errors. > > Any Ideas?
There is a difference between the format of cron jobs created with crontab vs. what is the system cron files located in /etc/cron.d. That difference is the insertion of the username (uid) that the cron job is to be run as. The username is inserted after the 5 time fields and before the command. Look at the file /etc/cron.d/mailman, you'll see lines that look something like this: 0 5 1 * * mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/mailpasswds Note that the 6th field is the username "mailman" which is the user the command is supposed run with the privileges of. ONLY files in /etc/cron.d have this extra field. If you installed the cron jobs using the command "crontab" using a file that has this format (recall that crontab files DO NOT have the username in them, its specified as an argument to crontab (e.g. -u) then cron will be confused into thinking the command is "mailman" because the 6th entry in a crontab file is the command (its the 7th entry in a system cron file). This is the most likely cause of the symptom you report. The rpm is supposed to correctly handle the cron installation and is aware of the difference between "system cron files" and files passed to crontab (of course there might be an rpm bug, especially if you didn't manually try to modify what the rpm installation did). I just spoke with the cron maintainer here who said there were some versions of cron in RHEL3 (which is the distribution your mailman rpm came from) that had some bugs. You could try updating your version of cron and see if that helps, but it really sounds to me like a mismatch of the cron formats. -- John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------ 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