Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Knowles
Hank van Cleef wrote: Just because: Solaris isn't Linux, and sendmail isn't Postfix, isn't a reason to call either one of them "screwed up." You picked a really bad analogy to make with me. I've been administering Suns for almost twenty years, since the SunOS 4.0.2 days. I still vividly re

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Hank van Cleef
The esteemed Brad Knowles has said: > > On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > > After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was > > that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was > > changed, the script worked as expected. > > Was this on a Solaris b

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brad Knowles wrote: >On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: > >> After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was >> that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was >> changed, the script worked as expected. > >Was this on a Solaris box? I've had problems wi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 8/7/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was changed, the script worked as expected. Was this on a Solaris box? I've had problems with them lately not allowing cr

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Alan.Rubin at nt.gov.au wrote: I put in the print line and there was no output when I ran the script. And no success either. After some off list back and forth, Alan determined that the problem was that the mailman user had /bin/false as a login shell. Once that was changed, the script wor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Alan . Rubin
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I chose option two, but it didn't seem to work. I am not a python programmer. >Is there a general switch to turn on simple debugging (a la -x in sh >scripting). No. >I ran this: > >su mailman -c "/opt/csw/bin/python -S /export/home/mailman/cron/senddigests_mod >-l

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Alan . Rubin
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >So, if digest_send_periodic is No (so that digests are not sent every day as >indicated by the default senddigests cron entry), senddigests will not force >the >list to send a new digest even with the -l option? Correct. >If you host many lists and >one list/custome

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Alan . Rubin
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >If these lines occur in mailman's crontab - > ># Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshhold delivery. >0 12 * * * /opt/csw/bin/python -S /export/home/mailman/cron/senddigests > >how will lists with digests enabled be affected? If the list has a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-05 Thread Alan . Rubin
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Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Thanks for your answer. It is very enlightening. > >This is a bit of a tangent, but also has to do with 'interpretation' of >Mailman's configuration. If you read/work with the list configuration from the >command line, using ~mailman/bin/config_list, you will see many

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest options -> list configuration

2008-08-05 Thread Alan . Rubin
Mark, Thanks for your answer. It is very enlightening. This is a bit of a tangent, but also has to do with 'interpretation' of Mailman's configuration. If you read/work with the list configuration from the command line, using ~mailman/bin/config_list, you will see many descriptions that say so