On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 18:46 +0300, Danil Smirnov wrote:
2015-04-21 17:43 GMT+03:00 Danil Smirnov <danil@smirnov.la>:
2015-04-21 17:24 GMT+03:00 Lindsay Haisley <fmouse@fmp.com>:
so a direct copy of the Mailman crontab to this directory can't be done without modifying the file.
You are right but not because of improper format of crontab.in file:
Files in /etc/cron.d/ require an additional field, the user account to which the crontab file belongs. From the man page for cron(8) for Ubuntu:
Additionally, in Debian, cron reads the files in
the /etc/cron.d
directory. cron treats the files in /etc/cron.d as in the same
way
as the /etc/crontab file (they follow the special format of
that
file, i.e. they include the user field).
Records in mailman.in don't have the user field, e.g.
27 3 * * * /usr/bin/python
-S /usr/lib64/mailman/cron/nightly_gzipIt could be manually added, but the best way to incorporate the Mailman crontab is to pull it into the crontab editor (crontab -e), which will put them in the cron spool directory.
"Improper" is perhaps to strong a word. "Incorrect" might have been a better choice.
# This file is copied to /etc/cron.d/mailman from # /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in when the mailman service is started via its # init.d script and the file /etc/cron.d/mailman is removed when the # service is stopped. Therefore any edits made directly to # /etc/cron.d/mailman will be lost anytime the mailman service # restarts. # # To make changes edit the master copy /usr/lib/mailman/cron/crontab.in and then # restart the service to pick up the changes (/sbin/service mailman restart). # # The reason this is done this way is because the mailman cron jobs # should only be invoked if the mailman service is enabled and not # just as a consequence of installing the rpm as was the case # previously. The file /etc/cron.d/mailman cannot simply be linked to # the master copy in /usr/lib/mailman/cron because for security reasons cron # will not process crontab files that are links or writeable by # anybody else but root, thus the file must be copied into /etc/cron.d # with the right ownership and permissions.
Danil
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