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Subject: Re: Argh! Invalid archive directory?!
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <nmehl @ leftbank . com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:53:36 -0400 (EDT)
To: david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com
Cc: nmehl @ leftbank . com, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199610151317.IAA20096@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com> from "Dave Wolfe" at Oct 15, 96 08:17:02 am
Reply-to: nmehl @ leftbank . com

In the immortal words of Dave Wolfe:

> You need to be sure that the $filedir, $filedir_suffix, and
> @archive_dirs variables in your majordomo.cf file all agree. I'm
> assuming that:

Ah!  That, in fact, was the problem.

>     $filedir = "/usr/local/lib/majordomo/archives";
>     $filedir_suffix = ".archive";

I had $filedir set to ="$listdir".  Oops. :)

($listdir, obviously, was something different)

>     @archive_dirs = < $filedir/*$filedir_suffix >;
> The latter setting will pick up any new archive directories, but the
> former must be updated to add each new archive directory.

This didn't seem to work, but since I'm only going to be administering
one list from this server, I'm not worried about that. :)

There was one additional problem: I had the mode of the archive
directory set to 0775, when it apparently needed to be 6775.

Many thanks!

-n

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