[Mailman-Users] Digest distribution time problem

[Conor ––––––]

This worked perfectly. I changed both the user's crontab as well as the system's cron.d/mailman file and now I seem to be able to manipulate the time at which the digests distribute. As a quick aside though: would I be able to just duplicate that particular line in both of those files and make the second line, say, 3pm, so digests distribute both at 9am and 3pm everyday?

Either way, thank you very much!

- Conor

> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:59:29 -0800
> From: mark at msapiro.net
> To: port_manteau at live.com
> CC: mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest distribution time problem
> 
> On 2/22/2012 11:11 AM, Conor –––––– wrote:
> > 
> > After having read several different threads in the archives about
> > altering the crontab file entry to change when the senddigests script
> > is run, effectively distributing each list's daily digest, I am still
> > at a loss. I've changed the entry so it appears it would distribute
> > the digests at 9AM each day, but, no matter what I do, the digests
> > still distribute at the installation default time of noon. For
> > example, here is what the entry looks like now:
> > 
> > # 9AM, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshold
> > delivery. 0 9 * * * /usr/bin/python -S
> > /var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
> > 
> > Is there perhaps another issue taking place here that I am not aware
> > of?
> 
> 
> What file are you changing? If you are changing Mailman's
> cron/crontab.in, that will have no effect until you do
> 
> crontab cron/crontab.in
> 
> either as the mailman user or as root with the -u option.
> 
> Note that if your Mailman is installed from a package, it might be using
> a 'system' crontab. You should check if the actual mailman crontab is a
> user crontab in /var/spool/cron/mailman or a system crontab in some
> place like /etc/cron.d/mailman. If it is a user crontab, you can list
> it, edit it or install it from a file using the crontab command (see man
> crontab). If it is a system crontab, you have to edit it directly and it
> will also have an additional field for the user to run as between the
> days/times fields and the command.
> 
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