In message <Pine.3.89.9407112129.A10793-0100000@vorlon.mankato.msus.edu>,
"Robert A. Hayden" writes:
>For the list I have, there is a directory _listname-digest.archive_ where
>the completed digests are being stored, but I also noticed that there is
>a file forming called _listname-digest.archive.9407_ what is growing in
>size and contains all of the postings to the list since digesting was
>started, and when the digest is completed, this file doesn't erase or
>anything and just continues to append messages.
>
>I am assuming (perhaps wrong) that the following alias entry is what is
>creating this file:
You aren't wrong. The archive entry is creating the monthy archive
file 9407.
>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?
Digest archiving occurs automatically as a side effect of running
digest. I hope to decouple that in the next release.
In the alias above, you are ceeating your own digest for the listname
mailing list, but you are putting it into the listname-digest archive
directory rather than the listname archive directory. If you change the:
/home/majordomo/lists/listname-digest.archive"
to be:
/home/majordomo/lists/listname.archive"
You will have a monthly archive of all of the traffic on the list
suitable for indexing with the contributed scripts. I don't think that
the indexing scripts work properly with digest formatted files.
>Am I doing something wrong?
Arguably yes, you are mixing archives for the digest and direct
mailing lists. If you are using private-get, people on the direct list
can't access the archives in the digest archive area, and there is no
archive for the direct list.
-- John
John Rouillard
Senior Systems Consultant (SERL Project) University of Massachusetts at Boston
rouilj@cs.umb.edu (preferred) Boston, MA, (617) 287-6480
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