[Mailman-Users] Cron Errors

Andreas Pauley andreasp at qbcon.com
Wed Mar 28 10:27:02 CEST 2001


Hi,
We've been receiving strange errors from the mailman cron entries on our
newly setup list server.
Here are three examples.
Does anyone know wat this could be?

Thanks,
Andreas.

Subject: Cron <mailman at lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/cron/qrunner

  File "/home/mailman/cron/qrunner", line 1
    Né?óROA~Ä3&MÆFpython
     ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax


Subject: Cron <mailman at lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/cron/gate_news

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 1, in ?
    #! /usr/bin/env python
NameError: There is no variable named 'ILNDIJBPGLJO'

Subject: Cron <mailman at lsd> /usr/local/bin/python -S
/home/mailman/cron/gate_news

  File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 1
    R><FONT COLOR="#python
      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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