On 10/13/2016 08:56 AM, Dominik Hoffmann wrote: > Another observation: > > 4. Moving the Crontab from root to _mailman had no effect.
Good you moved it, but see below. >> On Oct 13, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Dominik Hoffmann <dhoffm...@uwalumni.com> >> wrote: >> >> There are still a few of things to mop up, after an otherwise successful >> installation of Mailman on OS X El Capitan with Server 5.2. >> >> Every 5 min my admin user account on the server gets an email from the Cron >> Daemon that has this line: >> >> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: >> '/usr/local/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.ipheion.hoffmann.homeunix.net.54220.0' cron/gate_news is trying to create the lock and has no permission to do so. >> Here are my observations: >> >> 1. I currently have no file at /usr/local/mailman/locks/ whose name starts >> with "gate_news". Normally, the lock would only exist during the few (milli)seconds that gate_news was running, but in your case it isn't even created. >> 2. My root Crontab has these lines: >> >> # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out >> # if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right >> now, >> # or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling. >> # 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python -S >> /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news >> >> In other words, the gate_news cron job is commented out. OK, but there is another crontab somewhere running gate_news. Also, Mailman's cron jobs should run as the Mailman user (usually _mailman in FreeBSD/Darwin), not as root. Since the gate_news entry in the crontab entry you are looking at is commented out, there must be another crontab somewhere. You may have a system crontab in /etc/cron.d/ or another user crontab. Note that the format of system crontabs is different. There is an additional field between the times/days and the command for the user to run as. >> 3. I have run /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f, but that has had no >> impact. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
