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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
