[Mailman-Users] Cron has issues with gate_news

Dominik Hoffmann dhoffmann at uwalumni.com
Thu Oct 13 11:56:22 EDT 2016


Another observation:

4. Moving the Crontab from root to _mailman had no effect.

> On Oct 13, 2016, at 11:43 AM, Dominik Hoffmann <dhoffmann at uwalumni.com> wrote:
> 
> There are still a few of things to mop up, after an otherwise successful installation of Mailman on OS X El Capitan with Server 5.2.
> 
> Every 5 min my admin user account on the server gets an email from the Cron Daemon that has this line:
> 
> IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/mailman/locks/gate_news.lock.ipheion.hoffmann.homeunix.net.54220.0'
> 
> Here are my observations:
> 
> 1. I currently have no file at /usr/local/mailman/locks/ whose name starts with "gate_news".
> 
> 2. My root Crontab has these lines:
> 
> 	# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out
> 	# if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now,
> 	# or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling.
> 	# 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /usr/bin/python -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
> 
>   In other words, the gate_news cron job is commented out.
> 
> 3. I have run /usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms -f, but that has had no impact.



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