Re: [Savannah-users] moderator requests from mailman

[Jan Owoc]

Hi Karl,

On May 8, 2016 12:25, "Karl Berry" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     >     Were there any system-wide changes to mailman that may have
>     >     affected the notification settings?
>
> Hi Jan - those daily notifications are sent out by a cron job, and I see
> the usual cron entry is present on lists.gnu.org. /etc/cron.d/mailman
> contains:
>
> 0 8 * * * list [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs ] &&
/usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
>
> and that file exists, and is from the recent installation:
>
> lists$ ls -l /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 list list 7088 Apr  7 13:25 /usr/lib/mailman/cron/checkdbs
>
> We (Savannah volunteers) are able to log in as user list on
> lists.gnu.org, so I tried it running it by hand, and there was no output
> and no errors.  Unfortunately it also completed instantly, which did not
> seem plausible.
>
> So, looking further, there are two installations of the recent mailman.
> One is the /usr/lib/mailman above.  The other is
>   /spool/mailman/cron/checkdbs
> I tried running that, and it did not return instantly,
> so maybe it actually sent something out.  Did you get a notification
> just now, perchance?

Yes, I got notifications about 5 minutes before your email. So it looks
like the latter cron job is what should be running.

Could you make the change or notify the FSF sysadmins, as I'm not too sure
what exactly I should be asking for :-).

Thanks for looking into this so far,
Jan