[SLUG] Cron's

[Al Girling]

On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 10:15 pm, Gavin Baker wrote:
> The message from cron every minute is due to a cron job that executes
> the /var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner script every minute. No suprises :)
>
> Check /etc/cron.d/* for this cron job.

Using less to view /etc/cron.d shows;

"==> This is a directory, showing the output of ls -lAL
total 0"

Which doesn't offer me any thing to go on.

> You could just comment out the job (in it's /etc/cron* script), or you
> could just change the times that it is run. For example, changing  * * *
> * * to 0,15,30,45 * * * *, would only run that cronjob every 15 minutes.
> Check crontab(5) for file syntax.

Hmmm, see above for that one I think! ;)

> There may not be any failed deliveries (if I'm reading this right). That
> script may just be checking in case there *are* any failed deliveries
> that need to be retried.
>
> It looks like the messages are from "mailman", the server that handles
> mailing lists like SLUG. Check if it's installed (rpm -qa | grep
> mailman), if it is, you will probably want to just remove it (rpm -e
> mailman) or check it's homepage for docs :)

Mailman has now been removed!  Yes the  ' /var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner)' has 
now stopped.  So another successful job.

I'm sure I have many apps. surplus to requirement on my system, and need to 
work through deleting them.  Plenty of opportunity to cock things up there, 
methinks! ;)

> You have logrotate installed right?

Yes, but I think It'll be a little while before I can set it up to work as I'd 
like.  :)

> Hope that helps a little,
> Gav

As usual Gav, you've helped a lot.

Many thanks.

Al