[Mailman-Users] Re: Every day

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--

Ivan Van Laningham wrote:
> 
> Hi All--
> 
> David Gibbs wrote:
> >
> > "Ivan Van Laningham" <ivanlan at pauahtun.org> wrote in message
> > news:3E1C2D4B.10D42F2B at pauahtun.org...
> > > OK, I solved my other problem.  But ever since I've installed and used
> > > Mailman (three years), I've received these little notes from cron:
> > > /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch:
> > > error: failed to open /etc/mtab for reading
> > > Why is it trying to open /etc/mtab?  What possible business could
> > > Mailman have with mtab (Redhat, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3)?
> >
> > What makes you think that message is coming from Mailman?
> >
> > That looks like a message from stock Redhat processes.
> >
> 
> You might be right, but I never received those messages until Mailman
> was installed on RH 6.1, and I have continued to receive them daily
> through several changes/upgrades of RH to and including 7.3.  I think
> it's perfectly normal to suspect something that was install the day
> before the messages started.
> 

Searching Redhat, I found this RPM:  tmpwatch-2.8.1-1.i386.rpm

It may or may not fix the problem; it says it applies to all versions of
RH from 5.2 through 7.2, and I am running 7.2--I thought I'd upgraded to
7.3, but I hadn't.

I'll have to wait till tomorrow to see if that fixed it.

Metta,
Ivan
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