On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, JLG wrote: I think I've figuered out thatMailman is using cron to send out its messages. How can I make the job run more frequently? in /home/mailman/cron there are the following files: checkdbs crontab.in gate_news mailpasswds nightly_gzip paths.py paths.pyc qrunner senddigests would crontab.in be the file I need to change? Mailman's docs are kind of sparse but i can include a copy of this file if it'll help Jen > First, thanks to all who offered suggestions to get > Mailman up and running...and it is working just very, very slowly. > > First, a little info about the machine ("gundam") it is installed on: > Redhat 6.2 > Sendamail 8.9.3 > I believe Procmail handles local delivery in Redhat > > I have some accounts on gundam subscribed to the list "listfoo" > I also have an account on another machine on the network subscribed as > well. > > If I just send a plain old email from one account to the other on gundam > it arrives in seconds. If I post to listfoo it takes anywhere from > 2-15min to arrive in the boxes of the other subscribers. This > huge delivery lag is also the case for the account on another machine so > I'm ruling out a local delivery problem. > > Everything in the maillog looks kosher, here's a snip from a message > outgoing to listfoo: > > > sendmail[3220]: JAA03220: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=262, > class=0, pri=30262, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > proto=ESMTP, relay=IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] > Aug 10 09:39:50 gundam > sendmail[3221]: JAA03220: to="|/home/mailman/mail/wrapper post listfoo", > delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=prog, stat=Sent > > ---------------------------- > > Here's some headers from a listfoo post (this arrived the same time as > one send 20 min before it!?!): > > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from gundam.xxxxx.com (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [127.0.0.1]) > by gundam.xxxxx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03242; > Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:42:01 -0400 > Received: from gundam.xxxxx.com (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [127.0.0.1]) > by gundam.xxxxx.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03220 > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:39:50 -0400 > Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:39:50 -0400 (EDT) > From: jlg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Subject: [Listfoo] 9:44 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta5 > Precedence: bulk > List-Id: listfoo a cool list for testing <listfoo.gundam.xxxxx.com> > > > ----- > > Any suggstions? Any more info required to troubleshoot? > > Jen > > x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x > > > > _______________________________________________ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk