--On Tuesday, December 17, 2002 2:29 PM +0100 Serge Hartmann
<serge@isdnet.net> wrote:
> asking cron to concatenate multiple files to write to the disk every five
> minutes - opposed to an integrated capability of majordomo, just reading
> files - seems really horrible to me. :)
The answer depends on what you mean when you say you want to do this in
Majordomo.
If you want to do it without modifying Majordomo at all, just using some
clever configuration skills, then the only way I can see (besides your
cron'd concatenation) would be to use a named pipe. This "file" would
always contain the full list of restrictees because you would have written
a daemon process that feeds it. But this is not very efficient, and if you
have that much access to the machine, you can probably get at Majordomo as
well. :)
If you or your admins want to change Majordomo to add the functionality
you're asking for, try this patch. It allows you to say in the config file
restrict_post = @masterfile
and then the contents of "masterfile" (in the lists directory unless you
override with an explicit /path) are read in and used as a list of mailing
lists:
mailing-list-1:mailing-list-2:mailing-list-3...
*** config_parse.pl.orig Mon Oct 14 01:31:08 2002
--- config_parse.pl Tue Dec 17 09:16:38 2002
***************
*** 1167,1172 ****
--- 1167,1180 ----
sub grab_restrict_post {
local($list) = @_;
local(@files) = ();
+
+ if ($list =~ m{^@(.*)}) {
+ local($f) = ( $1 =~ m@^/@ ? $1 : "$main'listdir/$1");
+ push(@errors, "Can't find restrict_post indirect file $f at line
$.\n" )
+ unless -e $f;
+ $list = '';
+ open FILES,"<$f"; read FILES,$list,32767; close FILES;
+ }
@files = split (/[:\s]+/, $list);
foreach (@files) {
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