[server-admins] Mailman issues

[Jonathan Marsden]

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On 06/13/2010 11:57 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:

> Your mail to 'Mailman' with the subject
> 
>     Cron <mailman at www> /usr/lib64/mailman/cron/checkdbs

The issue is that this cron script is detecting a problem with the
mailman database and trying to email it to mailman.

I'd run

  /usr/lib64/mailman/cron/checkdbs

at a shell prompt and see what the error is, and then fix it.  You may
need to run that as root or as mailman, I don't remember.  When all is
well, that script will not generate any output, and so nothing will be
mailed to you when it runs nightly from cron.

As a secondary issue, you should find out why it is mailing its output
to "mailman", instead of to root which should be aliased to a real human
sysadmin's email account.  But I'd urge you to fix the mailman db first,
before spending time tracking that down.

Jonathan
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