Re: Mailing list recomendation

[Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 20:42:51 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote:

> Hi all - I am looking for a mailing list server to replace Majordomo
> since that does not seem to be available in Debian anymore.

Thanks for the recommendations! I have installed mailman and it seems to
work well.
I do have this little problem with the entry it left in /etc/cron.d
I think that I activated it by editing (is that possible) and since that
happened, I have received errors in the root mail of this nature:

  Subject: Cron <root@souterrain> list    [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f
  +/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] && /usr/bin/python
  +/usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue
  X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
  X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
  X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
  X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

  /bin/sh: list: command not found

and also a mail that I made to the test list resulted in:

  From: test-admin@avondel.nl
  Subject: Mail sent to Test
  To: root
  X-Mailman-Version: 1.1
  Precedence: bulk
  List-Id: Testlijst <test.avondel.nl>

  Your mail to 'Test' with the subject:

      Cron <root@souterrain> list [ -x /usr/bin/python -a -f 
   /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue ] &&
   /usr/bin/python
   /usr/lib/mailman/cron/run_queue

   Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.

   The reason it is being held:

       Implicit destination

I have tried to find the reason in the doc's, but did not manage.
I am not sure what went wrong, but it seems that the file in
/etc/cron.d did not belong in root's crontab?

Any suggestions or pointers are much appreciated!
				       
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  Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>