Ken Cheney wrote: > I get a million of these messages from Cron. Subject: [Mailman] Cron > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news > > I have read that it is because of something messed up with the crontab.in or > soemthing. Something to do with the place #6 or something like that.
There are two ways to install a crontab. The crontab can be a user's crontab and for the mailman user is usually in the file /var/spool/cron/mailman, but is usually manipulated with the crontab command (man 1 crontab). There are also system (package) crontabs which are usually found in the /etc/cron.d/ directory. These crontabs have a different format. Since they are not associated with a particular user, they have an additional entry for the username between the times and the command. Your problem is you have a file that was intended for /etc/cron.d/mailman, and it is installed in /var/spool/cron/mailman. You can fix this by moving /var/spool/cron/mailman to /etc/cron.d/, or by editing /var/spool/cron/mailman (as the mailman user give command 'crontab -e') and removing the word 'mailman' that precedes the command on each line of the file. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
