> I am assuming (perhaps wrong) that the following alias entry is what is
> creating this file:
>
> listname-outgoing::include:/home/majordomo/lists/listname,
> "| /home/majordomo/wrapper digest -r -C -l listname-digest \
> listname-digest-outgoing",
> "| /home/majordomo/wrapper archive2.pl -a -m -f \
> /home/majordomo/lists/listname-digest.archive"
>
> Is the archive2.pl entry necessary? Am I doing something wrong?
Your assumption is correct. No, it is not necessary. The digest program
makes archives of each issue already.
> #2
> Is there a way set up some kind of cron entry so that digests will get
> sent out if their is a posting over Xtime old? ie, if a digest is
> supposed to go out at, say, 25k, but it is only 12k and there is an item
> that is over 1day old, send the digest anyways.
>
> Is this the digest.diff patch in contrib?
Yes. However, if you only want one day, you can just use a cron script to
push a digest every day. Not sure how well this works. I wrote the
digest.diff patches, which work quite well, for my purposes at least.
> On a similiar note, if it is digest.diff that I need to apply, I did do a
> test apply, and I noted a could hunks failed. I'm not much of a perl
> hacker so I don't know what didn't work and I'm hesitant about using
> partially applied patches. (This is with a previously unpatched 1.92).
> So I went back to the old and I am running with UNPATCHED scripts.
I can help you with that. Let me know which patches don't apply and I can
send you new versions of those files.
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