[ mailman-Bugs-1111321 ] cron failures are sent to mailman list

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Bugs item #1111321, was opened at 2005-01-28 09:47
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Category: command line scripts
Group: 2.1 (stable)
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Wim Heirman (wheirman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cron failures are sent to mailman list

Initial Comment:
When a cronjob fails (e.g. nightly_gzip has a
permission problem), the output is sent to
mailman at localhost. However, mailman is by default a
mailing list (at least it was on my older Debian
system, I copied the /var/mailman/lists from there to a
new Fedora Core 3 installation). Since root is not on
the mailman list, I get "message awaits moderator
approval" messages.
Shouldn't the error go straight to root? For instance,
with a MAILTO=root directive in /etc/cron.d/mailman ?

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Comment By: Brad Knowles (shub)
Date: 2005-01-28 10:28

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This sounds like an OS/distribution-specific issue.  I get no such 
problems with Mailman on FreeBSD (for ntp.isc.org), nor with Mailman 
on Debian (for python.org).

Feel free to try out your suggested change, and if it works, then 
recommend that to the people at Redhat for inclusion in future versions 
of their RPM.

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