[Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

[Hugo Villeneuve]

Hugo Villeneuve <hugo at hugovil.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mark,
> 	Adding SHELL = /bin/sh to my mailman crontab solved my problem. I think it would be a good idea to add a note to the Mailman installation manual for people using fcron instead of cron. I have attached my complete crontab as a reference for anyone having this problem.

Here is my fcrontab (the previous email did not contain it):

Begin fcrontab
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!mailto(postmaster)

# This is needed because the mailman user doesn't have a
# login shell defined in /etc/passwd.
SHELL = /bin/sh

# 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 /usr/lib/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 /usr/lib/mailman/cron/disabled
#
# Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery.
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
#
# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
0 5 1 * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/lib/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 /usr/lib/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 /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
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End fcrontab