Hi,
I did get the message, have been busy all day.
This is the Cron script I use in /etc/cron.d/mailman:
# At 8AM every day, mail reminders to admins as to pending requests.
# They are less likely to ignore these reminders if they're mailed
# early in the morning, but of course, this is local time... ;)
0 8 * * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/checkdbs
#
# At 9AM, send notifications to disabled members that are due to be
# reminded to re-enable their accounts.
0 9 * * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/disabled
#
# Noon, mail digests for lists that do periodic as well as threshold delivery.
0 12 * * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/senddigests
#
# 5 AM on the first of each month, mail out password reminders.
0 5 1 * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/mailpasswds
#
# Every 5 mins, try to gate news to mail. You can comment this one out
# if you don't want to allow gating, or don't have any going on right now,
# or want to exclusively use a callback strategy instead of polling.
# */5 * * * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news
#
# At 3:27am every night, regenerate the gzip'd archive file. Only
# turn this on if the internal archiver is used and
# GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES is false in mm_cfg.py
27 3 * * * list [ -x /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip ] && /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip
Here is my init script in /etc/init.d/mailman:
#! /bin/sh
#
# mailman starts up the master queue runner for mailman
#
# Based on skeleton originally by Miquel van Smoorenburg and Ian Murdock,
# customisations by Tollef Fog Heen and Thijs Kinkhorst for Debian.
# Customised for stock Mailman installation by Andrew Hodgson 12/06/2010
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: mailman-qrunner
# Required-Start: $syslog $local_fs $remote_fs $named $network
# Required-Stop: $syslog $local_fs $remote_fs $named $network
# Should-Start:
# Should-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 1
# Short-Description: Mailman Master Queue Runner
# Description: Starts and stops the Mailman queue runners, used to
# manage the various message queues within the Mailman
# mailing list manager.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl
PIDFILE=/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0
set -e
#if ! [ -d /var/run/mailman ]; then
# install -d -o list -g list /var/run/mailman
#fi
#if ! [ -d /var/lock/mailman ]; then
# install -d -o root -g list -m 2775 /var/lock/mailman
#fi
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
# In rare upgrading cycles python might not be available at some point.
# Do not break the upgrade in that case.
if ! [ -x /usr/bin/python ]; then
log_warning_msg "Python interpreter not available, exiting."
exit 0;
fi
case "$1" in
start)
SITE_LIST=$( sed -rne "s/^[[:space:]]*MAILMAN_SITE_LIST[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*(['\"])([^'\"]+)\\1/\\2/p" /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py )
[ -n "$SITE_LIST" ] || SITE_LIST='mailman'
if ! /usr/local/mailman/bin/list_lists -b | grep -q "^${SITE_LIST}$"; then
log_warning_msg "Site list for mailman missing (looking for list named '${SITE_LIST}')."
log_warning_msg "Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start."
exit 0;
fi
log_daemon_msg "Starting Mailman master qrunner" "mailmanctl"
if $DAEMON -s -q start; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping Mailman master qrunner" "mailmanctl"
if $DAEMON -q stop; then
rm -f $PIDFILE
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
reload)
log_begin_msg "Reloading Mailman master qrunner configuration"
if $DAEMON -q restart; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
restart|force-reload)
PID=`cat $PIDFILE 2>/dev/null` || true
log_daemon_msg "Restarting Mailman master qrunner" "mailmanctl"
$DAEMON -q stop
if test -n "$PID" && kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null ; then
log_action_begin_msg "Waiting"
for cnt in `seq 1 5`; do
sleep 1
kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null || break
done;
if kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null ; then
log_action_end_msg 1
else
log_action_end_msg 0
fi
fi
if $DAEMON -q start; then
log_end_msg 0
else
log_end_msg 1
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/mailman {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Here is the logrotate script in /etc/logrotate.d/mailman:
/usr/local/mailman/logs/vette /usr/local/mailman/logs/error /usr/local/mailman/logs/bounce {
weekly
missingok
create 0664 list list
rotate 4
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f '/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' ] && /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q reopen || exit 0
endscript
}
/usr/local/mailman/logs/mischief {
monthly
missingok
create 0664 list www-data
rotate 4
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f '/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' ] && /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q reopen || exit 0
endscript
}
/usr/local/mailman/logs/digest {
monthly
missingok
create 0664 list list
rotate 4
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f '/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' ] && /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q reopen || exit 0
endscript
}
/usr/local/mailman/logs/subscribe /usr/local/mailman/logs/post {
monthly
missingok
create 0664 list list
rotate 12
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f '/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' ] && /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q reopen || exit 0
endscript
}
/usr/local/mailman/logs/qrunner /usr/local/mailman/logs/fromusenet /usr/local/mailman/logs/locks /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp /usr/local/mailman/logs/smtp-failure {
daily
missingok
create 0664 list list
rotate 7
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
[ -f '/usr/local/mailman/data/master-qrunner.pid' ] && /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl -q reopen || exit 0
endscript
}
Here is my vhost template where the URL for the Mailman is off the root, it is a bit different to the defaults since I made a lot of changes to the configuration to take out unneeded directives: