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>I use put the archive files for eg list sample in the directory
> /path/to/majordomo/archives/sample
>and similary for all other lists. Using a suggestion from this
>discussion list, my majordomo.cf file contains the lines:
>
># the safe locations for archive directories. This should be defined as
># a series of root anchored directory paths as will be used as prefixes
># to the file names specified to the archive2.pl script.
>@archive_dirs = ( </src/majord/archives/*> );
>
While this will work, it requires expansion every time the majordomo.cf
file is accessed. On a busy mail site this could be thousands of
times a day.
I had considered building a file that could be included in something
like:
@archive_dirs = (
require 'dirfile.pl'
);
I rejected that approach because it would require an additional disk access
every time that majordomo.cf is parsed. Instead of doing this I have a
new-list script that creates a new majordomo.cf file from a prototype file,
majordomo.cf.in, with all the valid archive directories in it. This way
the parsing and directory scanning is done only when a list is added so
there's no ongoing overhead associated with it.
Bill
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