[Mailman-Users] problem with cron

[nikos]

OK.
Actualy I use fedora's rpm.

Thank you for your help!

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Nikos Gatsis wrote:
>   
>> You mean:
>> 0 12 * * * mailman /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests -> 0 12 * * * 
>> /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
>>     
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> Yes, that's exactly what I mean.
>
>
>   
>> All commands in cron are likewise... I have already delete them and 
>> everything is OK.
>> Why you put this "mailman" command in contab.in?
>>     
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> We do not put it there. It was put there by whoever created the Mailman
> package (rpm, port, whatever) that you installed because it was
> intended to be installed in a file in /etc/cron.d and not by the
> crontab command.
>
> Also, it is not a command. Files in /etc/cron.d, do not belong to a
> specific user, so they need an extra field for the userid under which
> to run. That's what the 'mailman' is in this file.
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