/etc/logrotate.d/mailman sends cron mail almost every night

[Knut Auvor Grythe]

Binary package hint: mailman

Servers running mailman on Ubuntu Hardy keep sending this mail nearly every night. It's quite annoying.

  Subject: Cron <root@hostname> test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

  /etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
  Re-opening all log files

This is caused by /etc/logrotate.d/mailman, which in every postrotate script does this:

  [ -f '/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid' ] && /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl reopen || exit 0

I suggest changing this to:

  [ -f '/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid' ] && /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl reopen >/dev/null || exit 0

...which doesn't cause any unnecessary cron mail.

I'd recommend fixing this as fast as possible, since frequent cron mail quickly will cause users to ignore all mails with the same subject. This could hide issues which do require attention.

[Knut Auvor Grythe (knut-a-grythe)]

I just noticed that this was previously solved in debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456954