Thank you Mark. I put the "mailto" line in crontab and I recieve the first errors:
/bin/sh: mailman: command not found I think refers to mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/... lines. What is wrong with that? Mark Sapiro wrote: > nikos wrote: > > >> Hello list. >> I've just install mailman 2.1.9 in a fedora 6 server. >> Everything works fine except cron. >> >> I'm recieving errors like: >> >> You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has >> been automatically rejected. If you think that your messages are >> being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> and subjects: >> >> >> Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip >> Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs >> > > > cron is encountering errors and trying to mail them to the owner of the > crontab which is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > These mails from cron are being delivered to the 'mailman' list as > posts and the list is not accepting them. > > > >> What did I do wrong? >> > > > There may be permission issues or something else causing the cron > errors. You have to see the email which will report the response from > the command cron is running. > > The email actually may be attached to the reject notice, but it would > be better to put > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > at the top of mailman's crontab to get the cron errors mailed to you > directly. > > > >> I've just load contab.in in crontab -umailman >> What will happents If I stop cron for mailman? >> > > > None of the periodic jobs such as sending digests, sending pending > request reminders, sending monthly password reminders, gzipping the > archive text files, etc will be run. > > ------------------------------------------------------ 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