feature request: /etc/skel functionality

feature request: /etc/skel functionality

[Kurt Lieber]

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When we create a new list, there are certain things that we always want to
have in place.  There's always a certain address subscribed to every list
(for our custom archives), there's also a set of MIME types that we want to
reject, etc.

Since I don't think either ezmlm or mlmmj have a notion of "global"
configuration settings, it would be nice to at least have /etc/skel-type
functionality.[1]  That is to say, let me set up a default list directory
(/etc/mlmmj-skel?) exactly the way I want it.  Then, when I create a new
list, it will make a copy of that directory and modify it based on the new
list name, plus additional parameters I provide.

Hopefully, this makes sense.  If not, let me know and I can try to explain
it differently.  This is a nice-to-have feature, but not something we'd
consider a must-have.

--kurt

[1] In case folks are unfamiliar with /etc/skel, items placed in there are
automatically copied over to a user's home directory when their account is
first created.  This allows a sysadmin to create a default home directory
for all users on that machine.

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Re: feature request: /etc/skel functionality

[Christoph Thiel]

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Hi there,

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Kurt Lieber wrote:

> Since I don't think either ezmlm or mlmmj have a notion of "global"
> configuration settings, it would be nice to at least have /etc/skel-type
> functionality.[1]  That is to say, let me set up a default list directory
> (/etc/mlmmj-skel?) exactly the way I want it.  Then, when I create a new
> list, it will make a copy of that directory and modify it based on the new
> list name, plus additional parameters I provide.

Sounds like that could be done by enhancing mlmmj-make-ml.sh... It already 
creates the basic dirs and it shouldn't be to difficult to copy some files 
from $mlmmj_skel ;)


Regards
	Christoph
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