feature request: archivedir setting

feature request: archivedir setting

[Robin H. Johnson]

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I'm writing this email, in the hope that somebody else has already
implemented what I'm interested in.

I'd like a tunable to specify what directory to use for the archive.

If nobody else has done it, I think it should be trivial to implement,
generally following this pseudo-code:

Existing:
archivename = concatstr(3, listdir, "/archive/", buf);

New:
char* archivedir = get_archivedir(listdir);
archivename = concatstr(3, archivedir, buf);
char* get_archivedir(listdir) {
	archivedir = <$listdir/control/archivedir>;
	return archivedir if archivedir;
	return "$listdir/archive/";
}

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

On 03/01/2008, at 3.13, Robin H. Johnson wrote:

> I'd like a tunable to specify what directory to use for the archive.


I wouldn't mind implementing this for you, but why not just symlink  
the archive dir to somewhere else?

-- 
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
  and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
                                  -- A. P. J.

Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Robin H. Johnson]

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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:07:03AM +0100, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> On 03/01/2008, at 3.13, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> I'd like a tunable to specify what directory to use for the archive.
> I wouldn't mind implementing this for you, but why not just symlink the 
> archive dir to somewhere else?
While that works fine for a single instance (and indeed I tested a
single list with it), I've got 114 lists presently, with a fair growth,
and I want to have it smartly set during list creation time.

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Robin Hugh Johnson
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E-Mail     : robbat2@gentoo.org
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Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

* Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> [Jan 03. 2008 20:00]:
> > On 03/01/2008, at 3.13, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> >> I'd like a tunable to specify what directory to use for the archive.
> > I wouldn't mind implementing this for you, but why not just symlink the 
> > archive dir to somewhere else?
> While that works fine for a single instance (and indeed I tested a
> single list with it), I've got 114 lists presently, with a fair growth,
> and I want to have it smartly set during list creation time.

How about a patch to specify a place to symlink to for
mlmmj-create-ml.sh than? WRT the existing list a very simple for loop
will help.

Will you have to change the existing lists as well?

-- 
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
 and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
                                 -- A. P. J.

Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Mads Martin Joergensen]

* Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk> [Jan 03. 2008 20:21]:
> WRT the existing list a very simple for loop will help.

for i in /var/spool/mlmmj/* ; do
        mv $i/archive /path/to/newplace
        ln -s /path/to/newplace/`basename $i`/archive $/archive
done

Untested, but you get the idea.

-- 
Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
"Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic
 and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?"
                                 -- A. P. J.

Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Morten K. Poulsen]

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:58 +0100, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
> * Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk> [Jan 03. 2008 20:21]:
> > WRT the existing list a very simple for loop will help.
> 
> for i in /var/spool/mlmmj/* ; do
>         mv $i/archive /path/to/newplace
>         ln -s /path/to/newplace/`basename $i`/archive $/archive
> done

-         ln -s /path/to/newplace/`basename $i`/archive $/archive
+         ln -s /path/to/newplace/`basename $i`/archive $i/archive

> Untested, but you get the idea.

Still untested :)

Morten

Re: feature request: archivedir setting

[Neale Pickett]

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I've been using this instead of the shell script that comes with mlmmj.
Minor tweaks should render it capable of symlinking your archive
directory to wherever.

This has some other stuff that links in with my postfix
auto-list-grabber thing (also attached) and an mhonarc doohickey (not
attached but I can if people want).

Neale

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#! /bin/sh -e

domain=woozle.org

list=$1
if ! shift; then
  echo "Usage: $0 listname [owner]"
  exit 1
fi

owner=$1
if ! shift; then
  echo -n "Who runs the list? "
  read owner
fi

echo "Enter a short description of the $list list, or just"
echo "hit enter for no description:"
echo -n "description: "
read desc

while true; do
  echo -n "Archive messages on the web (y/n)? "
  read archive
  case "$archive" in
    Y|y)
      archive=archive
      break
      ;;
    N|n)
      unset archive
      break
      ;;
  esac
done

base=/var/spool/mlmmj/$list
mkdir $base

echo "Copying skeleton..."
(cd /etc/mlmmj/skeleton && tar cf - .) | (cd $base && tar xmf -)
chown -R list:list $base

echo "Performing control file substitutions..."
# Do substitutions
cd /etc/mlmmj/skeleton/control
for i in *; do
  m4 -DLIST=$list -DOWNER="$owner" -DDOMAIN="$domain" -DSHORTDESC="$desc" -DARCHIVE="$archive" $i > $base/control/$i
done

if [ -n "$archive" ]; then
  touch $base/control/archive
fi

echo "Rebuilding postfix indices..."
make -C /etc/postfix

echo "All done."
echo
echo "You may want to poke around in $base/control."
echo "See /usr/share/doc/mlmmj/TUNABLES.gz for more information."


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#
# mlmmj mail list alias doohickies
#
#
# Unless you are editing a file ending with .m4, your changes will be lost.
# This means you, Matt.
#
esyscmd(`
for i in /var/spool/mlmmj/*/; do
  ml=$(basename $i)
  echo "$ml     \"|/usr/bin/mlmmj-recieve -L $i\""
done
')