Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
Hugo Villeneuve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Mark, > Adding SHELL = /bin/sh to my mailman crontab solved my problem. I think > it would be a good idea to add a note to the Mailman installation manual for > people using fcron instead of cron. I have attached my complete crontab as a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't use fcron so I don't know for sure, but looking at the > various manpages leads me to think that the shell= setting in the > fcron config file is only a default if the shell is not otherwise > specified. > > man 5 fcrontab > > says > > Whe

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Todd Zullinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:15:46 -0800 > Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> fcron by default runs commands using the user's login shell from >> /etc/passwd. Thus you have to either specify a valid shell in >> /etc/passwd or

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > >In the fcron configuration file, I have already this line for the shell: > shell = /bin/sh Well, I don't use fcron so I don't know for sure, but looking at the various manpages leads me to think that the shell= setting in the fcron config file is only a default if th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pending requests not seen

2005-12-18 Thread Terry Grey
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:20 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Terry Grey wrote: > > > >We have recently upgraded to ver 2.1.6 and are currently experiencing a > >problem with pending moderator requests. The emails are sent to the list > >admins correctly but when accessing the admindb web page there is t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 14:15:46 -0800 Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > > > > I'm using fcron to schedule the mailman jobs. I configured fcron to run > > the mailman jobs as the mailman user (fcrontab -u mailman...). I also > > created the mailman user with no lo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Pending requests not seen

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Terry Grey wrote: > >We have recently upgraded to ver 2.1.6 and are currently experiencing a >problem with pending moderator requests. The emails are sent to the list >admins correctly but when accessing the admindb web page there is the >message "Click on the message number to view the individual

Re: [Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > > I'm using fcron to schedule the mailman jobs. I configured fcron to run > the mailman jobs as the mailman user (fcrontab -u mailman...). I also created > the mailman user with no login shell (/bin/false), similar to what is > suggested in the mailman installation

[Mailman-Users] Errors with fcron jobs

2005-12-18 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
Hi, I'm using fcron to schedule the mailman jobs. I configured fcron to run the mailman jobs as the mailman user (fcrontab -u mailman...). I also created the mailman user with no login shell (/bin/false), similar to what is suggested in the mailman installation manual. When the

Re: [Mailman-Users] htdig configuration question - CGI not working

2005-12-18 Thread Sruli Shaffren
Hi. I've solved this. I seemed to have had two copies of the CGI programs, one in /usr/share/mailman and the other in /var/www/mailman - I guess one was from a botched install. Once I made sure mmsearch and htdig were in the right place, all was well. I must have done the htdig configure with t

Re: [Mailman-Users] How long does an invite last?

2005-12-18 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Poltorak wrote: >On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:18:27AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >> All confirmations including confirmation (acceptance) of invitations >> expire as set by the Defaults.py/mm_cfg.py setting >> PENDING_REQUEST_LIFE which defaults to 3 days. > >Can this default be set after th

Re: [Mailman-Users] How long does an invite last?

2005-12-18 Thread John Poltorak
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:18:27AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Brad Knowles wrote: > > >At 11:21 AM + 2005-12-16, John Poltorak wrote: > > > >> When an invitation is sent out from a mailing list for someone to join, > >> how long is it before it expires? > > > > I'm pretty sure that ther