Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-22 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Adam McGreggor writes: > I think that will help drive community contributions, immensely. It's > one barrier removed. "Immensely"? I'm not terribly optimistic. I personally want to use git, but moving to git has not appreciably changed the equation for Emacs (which also made the move from Baz

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-22 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:16:48AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 04/21/2015 09:42 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > This makes me wonder if it might be useful to have two files in the > > Mailman source: > > > > mailman/cron/crontab.in-system > > mailman/cron/crontab.in-user > > > > with -sy

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/21/2015 09:42 AM, Adam McGreggor wrote: > > This makes me wonder if it might be useful to have two files in the > Mailman source: > > mailman/cron/crontab.in-system > mailman/cron/crontab.in-user > > with -system including the 'user' column? Why? Our distribution works when insta

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:32:48AM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > The bottom line is that it's best, as always, to install a component > such as a crontab using the supplied tools rather trying to second-guess > the tool set and copying files directly. This makes me wonder if it might be useful t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 04/21/2015 09:32 AM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: >> # This file is copied to /etc/cron.d/mailman from >> # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in when the mailman service is started via >> its >> # init.d script and the file /etc/cron.d/mailman is

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: > # This file is copied to /etc/cron.d/mailman from > # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in when the mailman service is started via its > # init.d script and the file /etc/cron.d/mailman is removed when the > # service is stopped. Therefore any

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: > # This file is copied to /etc/cron.d/mailman from > # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in when the mailman service is started via its > # init.d script and the file /etc/cron.d/mailman is removed when the > # service is stopped. Therefore any

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
This thread is getting too convoluted for me to parse, but here's the complete story: There are two possible places where Mailman's crontab can be installed. For purposes of discussion, assume the Mailman user on your server is 'mailman'. - The crontab can be a user crontab in /var/spool/cron/mai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote: > 2015-04-21 17:43 GMT+03:00 Danil Smirnov : > > 2015-04-21 17:24 GMT+03:00 Lindsay Haisley : > >> so a direct copy of the > >> Mailman crontab to this directory can't be done without modifying the > >> file. > > You are right but not because

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Danil Smirnov
2015-04-21 17:43 GMT+03:00 Danil Smirnov : > 2015-04-21 17:24 GMT+03:00 Lindsay Haisley : >> so a direct copy of the >> Mailman crontab to this directory can't be done without modifying the >> file. You are right but not because of improper format of crontab.in file: # This file is copied to /etc

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Danil Smirnov
2015-04-21 17:24 GMT+03:00 Lindsay Haisley : > The crontab provided with Mailman in ~mailman/cron/crontab.in is not in > the proper format for use in /etc/cron.d/ so a direct copy of the > Mailman crontab to this directory can't be done without modifying the > file. I have absolutely identical fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Your old notes are incorrect. First, the proper command on modern Unix or Unix-ish systems such as Linux is simply: sudo crontab -e -u mailman Copy and paste the crontab provided with Mailman in the ~mailman/cron directory into the edit window opened by this command. The crontab provided with M

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread Danil Smirnov
Check if you already have /etc/cron.d/mailman, if not just cp /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/crontab.in /etc/cron.d/mailman with sufficient rights. 2015-04-21 8:21 GMT+03:00 Bill Christensen : > Hi all, > > I recently updated and my digests stopped going out (I was able to push out > the waiting

Re: [Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-21 Thread E Kogler
>Hi all, > I recently updated and my digests stopped going out (I was able to push out > the waiting digest manually by doing > /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/senddigests so I know the function is > working).  My old notes tell me the command for cron is: > sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/cront

[Mailman-Users] Cron command?

2015-04-20 Thread Bill Christensen
Hi all, I recently updated and my digests stopped going out (I was able to push out the waiting digest manually by doing /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/senddigests so I know the function is working). My old notes tell me the command for cron is: sudo /opt/local/share/mailman/cron/crontab -u mailm