[Mailman-Users] problem with cron

[nikos]

Thank you Mark.
I put the "mailto" line in crontab and I recieve the first errors:

/bin/sh: mailman: command not found

I think refers to mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/... lines.
What is wrong with that?

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> nikos wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello list.
>> I've just install mailman 2.1.9 in a fedora 6 server.
>> Everything works fine except cron.
>>
>> I'm recieving errors like:
>>
>> You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
>> been automatically rejected.  If you think that your messages are
>> being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at
>> mailman-owner at myHost.
>>
>> and subjects:
>>
>>
>> Cron <mailman at mail> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
>> Cron <mailman at mail> mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
>>     
>
>
> cron is encountering errors and trying to mail them to the owner of the
> crontab which is mailman at ...
>
> These mails from cron are being delivered to the 'mailman' list as
> posts and the list is not accepting them.
>
>
>   
>> What did I do wrong?
>>     
>
>
> There may be permission issues or something else causing the cron
> errors. You have to see the email which will report the response from
> the command cron is running.
>
> The email actually may be attached to the reject notice, but it would
> be better to put
>
> MAILTO=user at example.com
>
> at the top of mailman's crontab to get the cron errors mailed to you
> directly.
>
>
>   
>> I've just load contab.in in crontab -umailman
>> What will happents If I stop cron for mailman?
>>     
>
>
> None of the periodic jobs such as sending digests, sending pending
> request reminders, sending monthly password reminders, gzipping the
> archive text files, etc will be run.
>
>