Johann Visagie wrote: > Julian Stacey on 2003-04-08 (Tue) at 22:54:13 +0200: > > > > >Fix: > > > > Reduce the aggresive default /var/cron/tabs/mailman entries below: > > # Every 5 mins, try to gate news to maila \ > > . You can comment this one out > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * \ > > /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/gate_news > > > > # Retry failed deliveries once per minute. > > * * * * * /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S \ > > /usr/local/mailman/cron/qrunner > > > > Comment out gate_news by default, to match > > the admin web page, which also has news gating off by default. > > > > Change qrunner to 5 * * * * or 10 * * * * > > The few people that want a fast list can reduce it manually. > > An agressive 1 minute machine thrasher is not nice. > > While I agree with the argument, I should point out that mail/mailman merely > installs the crontab as distributed with Mailman, and thereby emulates a user > following instructions in Mailman's INSTALL file to the letter whilst doing > a manual install. > > Shouldn't this matter rather be taken up with the Mailman developers, rather > than trying to fix it in ports? Thanks. Yes, it would be best if Mailman developers fix their generic in their next release if they want to. (If they don't I'd appreciate if you patch it for FreeBSD later though). I haven't contacted the Mailman developers [yet]: As the designated MAINTAINER= in Makefile, I thought I'd funnel it through you first (but send-pr it too, as it literaly killed all my server net connectivity). Should I contact Mailman developers or will you ? (I'd prefer you to, if willing ? :-) Julian Stacey Freelance Systems Engineer, Unix & Net Consultant, Munich. Ihr Rauchen => mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Schnupftabak probieren.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Followup to ports/50736, misfiled as a new PR.