Re: RC1 Seems to work but incoming mails are ignored
On Fri, Oct 27, mailman-users-request@python.org wrote:
Andreas Gruener wrote:
cool answer - am I supposed to grep for cron (I suppose you're talking about the schedule daemon) in all faqs, readme, and docs, or is this some kind of riddle.
I'd really appreciate a little bit more details...
So, let me give you a bit more detail about this mysterious 'cron' Dan Mick
suggested: READ THE FINE MANUAL! (I prefer not to be rude folks)
Andreas, play it cool, man. You're right, but I've seen discussions like this a lot. Sometimes a poor soul is really just confused and missed one particular sentence in an INSTALL or FAQ. Let's assume this is the case.
Let's be userfriendly.
The INSTALL (mine is from beta6, yours may differ) file says:
- Set up the crontab entries. Mailman runs a number of cron jobs
for its basic functionality. You need to be user `mailman' (or
whatever you specified as --with-ownername) to perform this
step. Add $prefix/cron/crontab.in as a crontab entry by
executing these commands:
% su - mailman
% cd $prefix/cron
% crontab crontab.in
If you've just missed that paragraph, well, go ahead. If you missed the whole INSTALL file, read it carefully. It's not very long and contains a lot of essential information. You will make a lot of people angry if you don't read it and expect the list members to read it for you. All the CAPITAL LETTERS documentation files are interesting. Say, are you used to install software on Unix boxes?
matter, put yourself in their shoes. You write an instructions page, and people just ignore it. How would that make you feel?
Andreas, you are still perfectly right.
Cheers,
Michael-reads-documentation-files-for-you
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I did the crontab thing, but I don't see this added into my actual /etc/crontab file. Will the cron function work when I have to reboot my system?
Bob
On Sun, Oct 29, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
I did the crontab thing, but I don't see this added into my actual /etc/crontab file. Will the cron function work when I have to reboot my system?
These crontab entries will not show up in /etc/crontab, that's intended. So, your mail should now go out. Have a look at man cron.
Cheers,
Michael
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