[Mailman-Users] Noisy cron scripts
Drew Ferguson
drew at afccommercial.co.uk
Sat Aug 9 03:30:13 CEST 2014
Hi
Oh dear, this was all my own fault
Apologies for the distraction
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 17:06:30 -0700
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 04:43 AM, Drew Ferguson wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I upgraded my server the other day and as a result moved from Mailman
> > 2.1.14 to 2.1.15. My lists seem to be working fine but I am pestered by
> > cron sending me almost hourly reports with very unhelpful information
> > like this
> >
> > Subject: Cron <mailman at asgard> /usr/bin/python
> > -S /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:00:01 +0200 (CEST)
> >
> > Fname: /var/lib/mailman/lists/fergies-on-tour/config.pck
>
>
> Normally cron mails you the output from any job that issues any, but the
> standard GNU Mailman cron/checkdbs doesn't issue any output unless given
> invalid arguments or -h/--help.
>
> Furthermore, all the crons you mention should each run only once per day.
>
> What is the content of Mailman's crontab and/or a system mailman crontab?
>
> Is the output always the same?
>
> Is there anything relevant in cron's logs?
>
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Drew Ferguson
AFC Commercial
http://www.afccommercial.co.uk
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