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Subject: Re: Automating list creation?
From: Brent @ GreatCircle . COM (Brent Chapman)
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:19:01 -0800
To: sanjeev @ gollum . corp . sgi . com (Sanjeev Sisodiya), majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

At 16:31 1/9/95, Sanjeev Sisodiya wrote:
>I've just started using majordomo v 1.92 and have a question.
>Why was the process of creating a list not automated?  It seems
>like this would be a fairly standard set of steps each time.
>The only down side I can see is that at some point you'd have
>to have a script that ran as root to modify the aliases file
>(on a typical unix/sendmail system).
>
>Sanjeev

For any single system, it's the same process every time.  Across all
systems, however, the process varies widely.  The particular configuration,
the particular form of the entries even the /etc/aliases file, even the
location of the aliases file, all tend to vary from installation to
installation.


-Brent

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