On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:51:20 +0000 Chris Knadle <chris.kna...@coredump.us> wrote:
> severity 804436 important > retitle 804436 mlmmj: tells user to add malformed entry > to /etc/crontab thanks Hmmm... as I explain below, in my case it merely went ahead and did it. > However after running '/usr/bin/mlmmj-make-ml -L testlist2 -s > /var/spool/mlmmj -a -c mlmmj' to create a mailing list it outputs the > following text: > > If you're not starting mlmmj-maintd in daemon mode, > don't forget to add this to your crontab: > 0 */2 * * * "/usr/bin/mlmmj-maintd -F > -L /var/spool/mlmmj/testlist2/" > > and this is the bug: it tells the admin running the mailing list to > modify /etc/crontab when it's not necessary to do so, and in a way > that will break things. It's not obvious that the cron job added > in /etc/cron.d/mlmmj exists and runs mlmmj-maintd on all mailing > lists as this isn't mentioned in the README.Debian.gz. Furthermore > because it's done as a cron job this would not be considered "daemon > mode" and thus even if the user found this out they still may be > misled into thinking that adding the malformed entry > into /etc/crontab is needed. Just to clarify this, it did not tell me to add the entry, it just went ahead and did it, on the wheezy setup I used... had it told me to do it, I'd have spotted the error. The behaviour may have changed between versions, perhaps. However, as you say, it seems to be unnecessary anyway. -- Phil Reynolds mail: phil-deb...@tinsleyviaduct.com Web: http://phil.tinsleyviaduct.com/
