If a lurker and MJ 1.9.x admin could chime in on this list removal issue-
I wrote an embarrassingly trivial "rmlist" perl script which copies all the
target list info, archives, etc. into a RemovedLists directory. I like the
idea of not irrevocably deleting the list, since everyone makes mistakes on
occasion and it would be pretty annoying for a list admin to email, "Okay,
ready for you to delete my list elan6510!", have me do it, and then they
email back, "No wait, I meant elan6501!" Oops! Guess I'll have to set it up
from scratch again, and have them resubscribe everyone, if they know who
everyone is. My vote, if I get one, is for a "move to temp area" sort of
rmlist, and an unrmlist which could bring a list back from the brink. And
maybe a "purge" sort of command to get rid of removed lists after a while.
Or make everyone do it with a cron "find" command. :-)
The important subroutine from my crummy script, if I'm not being clear:
sub removeit {
my $oldl = shift (@_);
my $ripdir = "$removedlistsdir/$oldl"; #rest in peace
mkdir $ripdir, 0700;
mkdir "$ripdir/Archives", 0700;
rename $oldl, "$ripdir/$oldl";
rename "$oldl.config", "$ripdir/$oldl.config";
rename "$oldl.info", "$ripdir/$oldl.info";
rename "$oldl.passwd", "$ripdir/$oldl.passwd";
rename "$oldl.intro", "$ripdir/$oldl.intro";
rename "$oldl.old.config", "$ripdir/$oldl.old.config";
#fix archive files now
rename "$filedir/$oldl", "$ripdir/Archives/$oldl";
print "Removed $oldl. It now resides in $ripdir\n";
}
Just move the damn things over. (I do the /etc/aliases by hand. Told you
it was crummy!)
I haven't been on this list long enough to see if there is a "rename list"
in the works- I wrote a crummy script for that too. :-) Very handy, since
I was always forgetting to rename SOMETHING and MJ would hate me for it.
My $.02- keep up the good work! Maybe someday soon I will set up MJ2 on a
test box and make some REAL contribution, rather than just pester you
hard-working types.
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Paul Keck pkeck@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~pkeck
Univ. of Georgia- College of Education ftp://ftp.coe.uga.edu/users/pkeck
Office of Information Technology (OIT) mailto:pkeck@ediacara.org
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