[Mailman-Users] question regarding cron

[Jim Tittsler]

On Apr 29, 2005, at 01:20, Alex at Idoia wrote:

> I have installed mailman on my debian woody. I have checked recently 
> my /var/log/auth.log and they are poluated by a cron that is being 
> executed by mailman every minutes of every day:
> # */5 * * * *   list    [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f 
> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/bin/python 
> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/gate_news
> * * * * *       list    [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f 
> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner ] && /usr/bin/python 
> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner
> Can you explain me this ?
> Is this really necessary ?

That is the periodic task that was used for the (old) Mailman 2.0.x 
releases to process the messages.

> Can we prevent it from being printed in my /auth.log ?

If you use syslog-ng you could filter them before they are written to 
the log.

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