>> Jim Savoy wrote: >> Reading this reminded me that I have a similar problem. All of our lists >> are set by default to be admin_immed_notify=yes, but the list owners only >> get a message when something new arrives (that is put on hold). They >> never get a daily reminder about the queued-up stuff. Is this a known problem >> for v2.1.5 (we will be upgrading to v2.1.12 this summer). I have no idea how >> long this has been going on, and only remembered it because I own one of the >> lists and realized that I only get the one warning.
>Mark Shapiro wrote: >The daily summary is sent by cron/checkdbs. >Does mailman have a crontab? Does it have an entry to run cron/checkdbs daily? Is crond running? Hi Mark, The answers to your questions are: yes, yes & yes. But I don't think the person who installed Mailman many years ago ever did the "crontab -u mailman crontab.in" bit, so I just did it now. First I commented out everything in that crontab.in file except the checkdbs line, and set that to run immediately. It worked like a charm and sent out hundreds of reminders to all list owners. I am not all that familiar with cron. Is that "crontab -u mailman crontab.in" something you need to run every time you reboot the system? Or does it add something to /etc/cron.d or /etc/cron.daily or /etc/crontab? (I don't see anything new in those). But I noticed that many of the reminders it sent out, pointing people to the admindb page were blank (ie there is nothing pending). So I'm not sure what that means. There aren't that many .pck files in /mailman/data and I am not sure where else it is pulling that false information from. The next run is set for 8:00 am tomorrow, but I might have to put it on hold until I find out why there are so many bogus warnings going out. If someone was to clear out a bunch of pending requests from the mailman/data directory just by deleting them, instead of doing it properly with the admindb web interface, would that cause this problem? If so, can I remedy this somehow? Any pointers would be helpful. I don't fully understand all of the workings of Mailman (like many of the others on this list - I just sort of babysit it and we've never had too many problems). Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
