Actually, you can send "any" command to majordomo and the new config file
should be created, but config, newinfo and newintro are the best choices
since you will want to set the password, welcome and information messages
to something other than default right away.
Dan Liston
Richard Klein wrote:
>
> You can also use touch to create the list and then send the LISTS command to
> majordomo to create the config file.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alvin Oga" <alvin@planet.fef.com>
> To: "Todd Lyons" <todd@mrball.net>
> Cc: "Alvin Oga" <alvin@planet.fef.com>; <majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM>
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:56 AM
> Subject: Re: Creating a new list the easy way
>
> >
> > hi ya todd..
> >
> > usually just running md will create a virgin <list>.config file
> > and than i go and tweek the footers/headers etc...
> >
> > donno if using a gui is good or bad.... ( i hate gui's as it restricts
> > what you can do with the files...and than theres security issues
> > too if its web or tkbased
> >
> > to create blank new lists... there are scripts i know of..
> > ( ie...config /etc/aliases, archives, digests...
> >
> > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Majordomo/mj_check.pl
> > - creates the above...
> >
> > mj_check.pl -create <newlist>
> >
> > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Majordomo/Majordomo.Utilities.txt
> >
> > c ya
> > alvin
> >
> > > Todd Lyons wrote:
> > >
> > > What easy way is there? I've always created the config file from
> scratch.
> > > I tried using the newlist or whatever perl script came with it, but it
> > > barfed all over the place. Any recommendations for reading? The faq
> > > doesn't seem to address this. BTW, I got permissions and users and
> > > directory structure all taken care of. I just want the command(s) to
> create
> > > a blank new list and I'll figure out what it's doing on my own.
> > >
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