Committing lots of documentation updates, including linking up to the new

mailman-installation guide, and filling out the other formats that seemed to be missing.
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+<H1><A NAME="SECTION001800000000000000000">
+8 Set up cron</A>
+</H1>
+
+<P>
+Several Mailman features occur on a regular schedule, so you must set up
+<b class="program">cron</b> to run the right programs at the right time<A NAME="tex2html5"
+  HREF="#foot520"><SUP>5</SUP></A>.
+
+<P>
+If your version of crontab supports the <b class="programopt">-u</b> option, you must be
+root to do this next step.  Add <span class="file"><var>$prefix</var>/cron/crontab.in</span> as a
+crontab entry by executing these commands:
+
+<P>
+<div class="verbatim"><pre>
+    % cd $prefix/cron
+    % crontab -u mailman crontab.in
+</pre></div>
+
+<P>
+If you used the <b class="programopt">--with-username</b> option, use that user name
+instead of <code>mailman</code> for the <b class="programopt">-u</b> argument value.  If your
+crontab does not support the <b class="programopt">-u</b> option, try these commands:
+
+<P>
+<div class="verbatim"><pre>
+    % cd $prefix/cron
+    % su - mailman
+    % crontab crontab.in
+</pre></div>
+
+<P>
+<BR><HR><H4>Footnotes</H4>
+<DL>
+<DT><A NAME="foot520">... time</A><A
+ HREF="node40.html#tex2html5"><SUP>5</SUP></A></DT>
+<DD>Note that
+if you're upgrading from a previous version of Mailman, you'll want to install
+the new crontab, but be careful if you're running multiple Mailman
+installations on your site!  Changing the crontab could mess with other
+parallel Mailman installations.
+
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author	bwarsaw <>	2004-12-14 04:27:49 +0000
committer	bwarsaw <>	2004-12-14 04:27:49 +0000
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