[Mailman-Users] Mail not going out

[SysAdmin]

  Version of mailman: 2.1.2
  How it was installed: source
  Version of OS your server is running: Linux 2.2.16C32_III+VPN
  The MTA: Postfix


I looked at the FAQ at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py and found
the entry about the cron (3.1.4(5)).

These are my results:

[mailman bin]# /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/qrunner
/usr/bin/python: can't open file '/home/mailman/cron/qrunner'

[mailman bin]# cd ../cron

[mailman cron]# ls
bumpdigests  crontab.in  gate_news    nightly_gzip  paths.pyc
checkdbs     disabled    mailpasswds  paths.py      senddigests

[mailman cron]# ls -al
total 52
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman      1024 Jun  3 08:50 .
drwxrwsr-x  22 mailman  mailman      1024 May 29 17:44 ..
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      2374 May 29 17:19 bumpdigests
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      5716 May 29 17:19 checkdbs
-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman      1231 May 29 17:19 crontab.in
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      7643 May 29 17:19 disabled
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      9986 May 29 17:19 gate_news
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      8319 May 29 17:19 mailpasswds
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      4376 May 29 17:19 nightly_gzip
-rw-r--r--   1 root     mailman      2425 May 29 17:19 paths.py
-rw-r--r--   1 mailman  mailman       678 Jun  3 08:50 paths.pyc
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     mailman      2363 May 29 17:19 senddigests

So, it appears that there is no /home/mailman/cron/qrunner file.
How do I create one? Why was it not created at installation?

Here's cron for mailman:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (crontab.in installed on Tue Jun  3 08:46:25 2003)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
# At 8AM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests.
# They are less likely to ignore these reminders if they're mailed
# early in the morning, but of course, this is local time... ;)
0 8 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/checkdbs
#
# At 9AM, send notifications to disabled members that are due to be
# reminded to re-enable their accounts.
0 9 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/disabled
#
# Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery.
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/senddigests
#
# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/mailpasswds
#
# 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 /home/mailman/cron/gate_news
#
# At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file.  Only
# turn this on if the internal archiver is used and
# GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py
27 3 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /home/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip

So, there is no cron entry for qrunner being run every minute.

What should the entry for this look like and why wasn't it created on
installation?

If anyone can help answer these questions without flaming me for being an
idiot (I concede that already, so don't belabor it), I would appreciate
the help. I'm obviously--and truly--a novice at Mailman, but want to
become more knowledgeable.

Thanks.
Bill

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