On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:05, John Dennis wrote: > Kris Vassallo wrote: > > > > >I am getting emails with the following error in the body of emails being > > >sent to the list owner: > > >/bin/sh: mailman: command not found > > > > > >The subject reads as follows: > > >[Mailman] Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman > > >/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news > > Somehow you've got crontab entries enabled with a non-crontab file. > Reading the section on cron in /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT > may help you understand better. But the short answer is the cron file > supplied in the rpm you installed has an extra field in it at position > 6, the mailman user. It is to be installed in /etc/cron.d. However > please note this is automatically done for you by the init.d script when > you start and stop mailman,
Ah ha! I followed the instructions on the Mailman website for installation as I was unaware of the docs that already existed on my system; so I had run the crontab command to get the cron jobs running. So I removed mailmans crontab entries and restarted Mailman.. works like a charm now. THANKS! -Kris > please use the the init script to start and > stop mailman (e.g. /sbin/service mailman start|stop). If you installed > this cron file with crontab its is going to be very confused by the > extra 6th field. Please make sure you do not have any mailman crontab > entries and remember crontab != cron. The rpm you installed is supposed > to remove any pre-existing mailman crontab entries in favor of the newer > methodology. If one got left behind after the rpm install then the %post > section of the rpm is failing somehow. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
