[Mailman-Users] /bin/sh: mailman: command not found

[Kris Vassallo]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 16:05, John Dennis wrote:

> Kris Vassallo wrote:
> > 
> > >I am getting emails with the following error in the body of emails being
> > >sent to the list owner:  
> > >/bin/sh: mailman: command not found
> > >
> > >The subject reads as follows: 
> > >[Mailman] Cron <mailman at xxxxxxxx> mailman
> > >/usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
> 
> Somehow you've got crontab entries enabled with a non-crontab file.
> Reading the section on cron in /usr/share/doc/mailman-*/INSTALL.REDHAT
> may help you understand better. But the short answer is the cron file
> supplied in the rpm you installed has an extra field in it at position
> 6, the mailman user. It is to be installed in /etc/cron.d. However
> please note this is automatically done for you by the init.d script when
> you start and stop mailman,

Ah ha! I followed the instructions on the Mailman website for
installation as I was unaware of the docs that already existed on my
system; so I had run the crontab command to get the cron jobs running.
So I removed  mailmans crontab entries and restarted Mailman.. works
like a charm now. 
THANKS! 
-Kris

>  please use the the init script to start and
> stop mailman (e.g. /sbin/service mailman start|stop). If you installed
> this cron file with crontab its is going to be very confused by the
> extra 6th field. Please make sure you do not have any mailman crontab
> entries and remember crontab != cron. The rpm you installed is supposed
> to remove any pre-existing mailman crontab entries in favor of the newer
> methodology. If one got left behind after the rpm install then the %post
> section of the rpm is failing somehow.