[Pkg-mailman-hackers] cron job for mailman necessary?

[Timo Veith]

Hello debian mailman hackers,

I'v got a question according to the mailman package of Debian lenny. Today a
security update came in and I had some very old psv files left in
/var/lib/mailman/qfiles/bad which prevented the upgrade to succeed. By
googling I found out that I can/should use the cron job
/var/lib/mailman/cron/cull_bad_shunt to remove them. This brought me to the
conclusion that I should set up a cron job for the list user. But normally
this should be mentioned somewhere in the setup instructions so I searched
there. All I#ve found were some hints that one must activate the news gate
cron job if needed. And that formerly the qrunner was started by a cron job.
But this is done with the init script nowadays. Also there is a
crontab.infile under /usr/lib/mailman/cron in which the cron job from
above is
mentioned among others. In the comment of one of the others a
GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES variable is referenced. I couldn't find that in
mm_cfg.py.

So now the question arises do I need to setup cron jobs for mailman as the
list user or is this taken care of by the mailmanctl somehow?

Please direct me to the docs, if this is written down somewhere!

Kind regards,
Timo
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