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<font size=3>Ah.<br><br>
It wasn't immediately obvious to me that the crontab in question needed
to be installed under the "mailman" ID. <br><br>
On FreeBSD, they have individual crontab entries, but also /etc/crontab
-- where most of my stuff goes.<br><br>
I've put this into mailman's crontab, and manually ran the qrunner, and
the messages got delivered and the archive was visible. That seems
to fix it major issue in question.<br><br>
Note that confirmations of posts were not sent out -- and I've
subsequently tried this since then, and the post gets processed, and I
did configure it to send a confirmation back to the poster.<br><br>
Yeah, the crontab was a flagrant oversight -- but maybe the docs could
emphasize this a bit, for those that might run into this.<br><br>
Thanks for everyone's help.<br><br>
<br><br>
At 10:16 PM 7/3/2001 -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Here is my crontab, per your
request:<br><br>
<br>
# At 5PM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests<br>
0 17 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /local5/mailman/cron/checkdbs<br>
#<br>
# Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold
delivery.<br>
0 12 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S
/local5/mailman/cron/senddigests<br>
#<br>
# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.<br>
0 5 1 * * /usr/local/bin/python -S /local5/mailman/cron/mailpasswds<br>
#<br>
# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one
out<br>
# if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right
now,<br>
# or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of
polling.<br>
# 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S
/local5/mail<br>
man/cron/gate_news<br>
#<br>
# At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file.
Only<br>
# turn this on if the internal archiver is used and<br>
# GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py<br>
27 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S
/local5/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip<br>
# <br>
# Retry failed deliveries once per minute.<br>
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/python -S
/local5/mailman/cron/qrunner</font></blockquote></html>