[Mailman-Users] Mailman Cron question FIXED

[Mark Sapiro]

Marvin Raab wrote:

>Thanks for the response.
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>Yup, it does. 
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>So, I should simply comment out all lines in the crontab.in file?
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>I said:
>>To resolve the problem, I had root use:  crontab -u mailman -e and 
>>manually edited the file; removing the mailman field
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>>In Fedora 8 using yum to install, it appears that stopping and 
>>restarting the mailman service does not copy the crontab.in file to the 
>>mailman user's crontab.
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>Mark Sapiro said:
>But does it copy it to /etc/cron.d/mailman? If so, you will be running
>duplicates of all the cron jobs which will result in duplicate password
>reminders and admin notices and other problems.


No. What you should do is remove your hand installed mailman crontab

  crontab -u mailman -r

and let your yum installed package work as it was intended to.

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