On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:05:32 -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > Thanks for the recommendations! I have installed mailman and it seems > > to work well. I do have this little problem with the entry it left in > > /etc/cron.d I think that I activated it by editing (is that possible) > > and since that happened, I have received errors in the root mail of > > this nature: > > I have no idea what's causing your problems, but if you don't get an > answer on-list or off-list, you could try installing it from the source > tarball at <http://www.list.org/>. That's what I've always done (one of > those rare cases).
Thanks a lot. I seem to have figured it out myself. It had to do with my poor understanding of the /etc/cron.d functioning. I had submitted the file 'mailman' in that directory to the root-crontab, by doing something along the line of 'crontab mailman'. The syntax of the files in /etc/cron.d are a little different from 'regular' crontab files, and the 'user' field (list) was misinterpreted as a command. This seems to explain the affairs, does it not? > Martin mentioned that you shouldn't use the potato version. Is that > the one you installed? If so, you may want to remove it, update your > sources.list to point to testing and grab it from there instead. I did go with Potato, the Testing one wanted to upgrade about half my system, including Perl, Libc6 and a lot more. I want to prospond that move a little until I have restored my basic functionality (the reason I did a reinstall in the first place was a system that broke because I mixed too much of Potato and Woody, but that was about a year ago). For the time being Mailman 1.1 seems to work for my (simple) needs. Thanks again & best regards. -- Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
