I think, or assume, that mailman is running its cron, but nothing seems to be coming through from the NNTP gateway when there have been new posts. In general, how do I troubleshoot the gateway?
the script is there in:
/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
but are the results logged anywhere, perhaps?
thanks,
Thufir
Thufir wrote:
the script is there in:
/var/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
but are the results logged anywhere, perhaps?
/var/log/cron will tell you if it's being run?
Is mailman's crontab installed in /var/spool/cron/mailman or somewhere in /etc/cron.d? Note that the format of these crontabs is different. Don't make changes unless you know what you're doing.
See
man crontab man 5 crontab
cron/gate_news normally logs nothing, but if there is any exception or other output, it will be mailed to the address specified in a MAILTO= setting in the crontab or if none, to the user it ran under which is normally the 'mailman' list.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
cron/gate_news normally logs nothing, but if there is any exception or other output, it will be mailed to the address specified in a MAILTO= setting in the crontab or if none, to the user it ran under which is normally the 'mailman' list.
Actually, that is not correct. Mailman has a logs/fromusenet log an cron/gate_news logs various errors in that log as well as logging the usenet message numbers of messages posted to the mail list or the fact that there were no new messages. I.e., cron/gate_news logs quite a lot.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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