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Subject: Re: Digesting
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ cs . umb . edu>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 10:11:55 -0400
To: bill @ biome . bio . dfo . ca (Bill Silvert)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jul 1994 09:59:46 -0300." <9407061259.AA07155@biome.bio.ns.ca>

Is your digest alias set up as described in the README file for 1.9x?
You need the -C option (I think check the README to be sure) otherwise
majordomo and digest don't work well together.

In message <9407061259.AA07155@biome.bio.ns.ca>,
Bill Silvert writes:

>You write:
>
>>Withmajordomo 1.92 there is a mkdigest command. So your cron job looks like
>:
>>
>>mail majordomo@wherever < /home/noah/.mkdigtext
>>
>>where .mkdigtext has:
>>
>>	mkdigest <digest list name> <digest list passwd>
>>
>>Works like a charm. Alternatively you can use an echo of the command above,
>>but it doesn't work as well since a ps will give away your list password.
>
>I'm not sure what kind of charm this is, but as I posted before, when I
>try to create a digest in this way I get back the message:
>
>>>>> mkdigest <digest list name> <digest list passwd>
>*** digest: failed errors follow
>No messages.
>Stopped 
>ABORT No messages.
>Stopped  at majordomo.pl line 209, <_GEN_0> line 1.
>
>and I don't know enough perl to debug this.  If anyone has any ideas
>what is happening I would appreciate advice.
>
>And yes, the command was indeed 'mkdigest list password', I'm not that
>literal!  Just didn't want to publish that info.
>
>Bill Silvert

				-- John
John Rouillard

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