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Subject: Re: files auto un-linking
From: Tim Clinton <clinton @ cnet . ffa . ucalgary . ca>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 13:26:37 -0700 (MST)
To: Ricardo Bravo <rbravo @ dcfcen . uba . ar>
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <m0rbXuH-000DlRC@ccc.uba.ar>
Reply-to: Tim Clinton <clinton @ cnet . ffa . ucalgary . ca>



On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Ricardo Bravo wrote:

> I have a lot of troubles with list files loosing their link, and thus
> de-syncronizing between the file managed by majordomo and the one really
> receiving the mails.

> As both files loose their
> link, people for instance de-susbscribes from the file in /l/major/lists
> but they go on receiving mail, as their address still appears in the file
> in the /l/smail/lists directory.
> Un-linkings happen when someone subscribes/desubscribes (maybe only when
> someone does this with another one's address, but I'm not completely
> sure).

I'd suggest that probably Majordomo is creating a new file when a 
subscription happens. This would break a hard link. Try using a symbolic 
link. 




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