On 6/11/10 6:51 AM, "Mark Sapiro" <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
Bob Bader wrote:
I still have a Macintosh 10.3.9 server running the default mailman (version 2.1.4) for mail lists.
We have noticed digests have stopped working, I can send them manually, or if I set the trigger size to 0 they go. If I run the command /usr/bin/python -S /usr/share/mailman/cron/senddigests That also works.
I suspect it has something to do with cron.
I look in the file /usr/share/mailman/cron/crontab.in and it all looks good.
Is there is setting for mailman in the Mac's crontab?
No. crond normally looks at the system crontab /etc/crontab and all the user crontabs in /var/spool/cron/* (or in Mac OS X 10.6 at least, /usr/lib/cron/tabs/*). It doesn't look at /usr/share/mailman/cron/crontab.in which is the input intended to be installed in /usr/lib/cron/tabs/ by a command like
crontab -u _mailman /usr/share/mailman/cron/crontab.in
(assuming the Mailman user is _mailman). See 'man crontab' and 'man cron'.
Since Mailman's cron jobs used to run, I suspect the issue is that crond is not running on your server. It's either that or Mailman's crontab has gone missing. If
crontab -u_mailman -l
shows Mailman's crontab, then crond is not running. How to fix that is a Mac OS X question.
On my Mac OS X 10.6.3 system, crond is not running, but cron is. The man page for cron makes it look like crond by the shorter name. This is 10.6.3 client, not server (and I don't run Mailman on it).
A quick test suggests that cron acts like crond.
- /bin/date >> /tmp/dates
(Which I think I'll turn off now.)
It produced: cat /tmp/dates Sun Jun 13 09:10:00 PDT 2010 Sun Jun 13 09:11:00 PDT 2010
--John