Re: [Savannah-hackers] mailing list setup: archive directory problem?

[Guillaume Morin]

Dans un message du 19 mai à 10:33, address@hidden écrivait :
> which is a bit too light for me to debug the problem. What user runs the
> crontab on fencepost ? How this scripts operates ? What's the rationale ? 

This is in sysadmin.texi.

> Reading from the script it seems it appends a set of aliases in a 
> savannah specific file on fencepost. And then creates the list with the
> "newlist" program. It also uses "wrapper" for some reason. Which one does
> what exactly, I have no clue (I don't know mailman). 

See Mailman doc.

> I guess newlist is creating the files/dir you mention and fails, somehow. 
> I'd like to check the logs but I don't know where they are. 

If it was failing, it would send a message to savannah-hackers. BTW, the
cronjob has indeed sent 4 messages to savannah-hackers saying that it
could not get the XML dump. I guess it was a ssh problem.

> Also there is a sfverify script which is just used to check if a mailing
> list name is taken or not. I could not find documentation about this 
> script though.

This script is mainly for mailing list migration.

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