August 2009 - Smartlist - lists.rwth-aachen.de

How to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc ?
by Kapoor, Nishikant X 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

All, I am trying to use rc.local.s10.mhonarc from http://www.ha-schneider.de/software/smartlist/ to set up an archive for a mailing list. I have renamed rc.local.s10.mhonarc to rc.local.s30 and added following line to rc.custom RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_30 = rc.local.s30 rc.local.s10 and rc.local.s20 are already in use and since I do not know how to merge the recipe in rc.local.s10.mhonarc with either of the two, I renamed it to rc.local.s30 and added a new line in rc.custom. Could someone please help me understand as to how it all works. Thanks Nishi

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Archive egrep
by Alan Northam 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

The following is a sample of the results of a search that I receive by email. This there a way to hide the line number? ARCHIVE egrep august latest/* BEGIN---------------cut here------------------ latest/10:16:Monday, August 27, 2001 latest/11:16:Tuesday, August 21, 2001 latest/12:16:Wednesday, August 29, 2001 END-----------------cut here------------------ Thanks for your help! Alan,

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modify the subscribe/unsubscribe-mail
by Martin M=?ISO-8859-1?B?/A==?=ller 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

hi! how can i modyfiy the text for the automatic subscribe/unsubscribe-mail? The possibilities of a *subscribe.txt*-file in my folder are not enough for me. I want suppress the information about the transmited data and translate the rest of the mail to german. TIA, martin -- "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft?" - Christine Comaford, PC Week

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Archives?
by Mitchell Darer 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

Hello: Does SmartList have an archiving and (hopefully user friendly) search capability? [I'm not interested in the archives of this Disc List, but of the list I run for my 'users']. Thanks, Mitch Darer -- Mitchell Darer, WebMaster, mitch(a)focusing.org The Focusing Institute, 34 East Lane, Spring Valley, NY 10977 http://www.focusing.org (845) 362-5222 (phone/fax)

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Re: does anyone find it ironic that smartlist mailing list is using Mailman?
by Charlie Summers 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

At 11:41 AM -0400 7/28/00, Werner Reisberger is rumored to have typed: > I never saw any > admin reply to the numerous complains about spam messages. Actually, that's not _strictly_ true, since I remember when Stephen was actually maintaining the list (and probably anally have archives of the list from that time somewhere on some floppy or MO cart from a long time ago and far far away). But you're right, it's been _years_ since he's been around. However, the list belongs to the maintainer (or at least the machine's admin), not the members. You'll get no argument from me that the list should be moved (I believe I said exactly that a couple of times), but to suggest the admins need to take a poll to ask what they may or may not do with the existing list is silly, to say the least. They are certainly able to move this list to mailman without the list subscriber's permission - indeed, they _have_ done so, which makes my point for me. Whether we should move this list to a SmartList server is a completely seperate issue...one which Philip should probably weigh in on, since he is now maintaining the procmail/SmartList source and as such the de facto head of our band of merry wanderers... Charlie

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Re: setting up Smartlist with sendmail
by Zhiliang Hu 15 Jul '16

15 Jul '16

Now I am setting up Smartlist with qmail (on a RH mamchine). qmail is installed and tested. Previously I only copied Smartlist over from a similar platform (RH Linux). Now I decided to install from the source: I unpackaged SmartList-3.15 over procmail-3.22 (I cannot find procmail-3.15, thus by tweaking the folder name I managed to have them in the same dirrectory "procmail-3.15"). Now when I run > cd procmail-3.15/SmartList > sh install.sh /home/slist it spit out endlessly the following line: install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory install.sh3: line 3: cd: .: Not a directory ... that evenually I had to kill the process. Is it a version problem or else? Zhiliang

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Re: flist:_Permission_denied
by Zhiliang Hu 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:26:33 +0200 (CEST) > From: Santiago Vila <sanvila(a)unex.es> > To: Zhiliang Hu <hu(a)animalgenome.org> > Cc: smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > Subject: Re: flist:_Permission_denied > >>> In my system: >>> >>> # ls -l /var/list/.bin/flist >>> -rwsr-xr-x 5 root list 25432 ene 18 2007 /var/list/.bin/flist >>> >>> Those are also the permissions of the executable inside the .deb. >>> Either those permissions were lost during the conversion to .rpm, >>> or maybe you changed them after installing the package. >> >> I didn't change it. Now I chmod my flist to be: >> -rwsr-xr-x 5 list list 25432 Jan 18 2007 /var/list/.bin/flist >> and I still get the same "deferral: >> /bin/sh:_/var/list/.bin/flist:_Permission_denied/" error. > > Two things: > > 1. The permissions/ownerships are not the same yet. My flist is owned > by root, yours is still owned by list. In my old smartlist settings it was all owned by ~list. Okey, now I did "chown -R root list" (tested; didn't help). I suppose it has to be owned by the ~list because ~list handles the processes (it's the case at least in a number of my old installations). > 2. flist is an ELF binary. Why is he trying to execute as a sh-script? > Does your /etc/aliases have entries like these ones?: > > foo: "|/var/list/.bin/flist foo" > foo-request: "|/var/list/.bin/flist foo-request" > > (or whatever the qmail-equivalent might be). Yes, exactly. No idea how shell gets in the way. Any suggestion for alternatives? Thanks, Zhiliang

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Re: flist:_Permission_denied
by Zhiliang Hu 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:29:55 +0200 (CEST) > From: Santiago Vila <sanvila(a)unex.es> > To: Zhiliang Hu <hu(a)animalgenome.org> > Cc: smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > Subject: Re: flist:_Permission_denied > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Zhiliang Hu wrote: > >> Previously I got the Smartlist to work on this RH linux box. >> >> Today it quit working, nothing recorded in list log but this error in >> /var/log/maillog: >> >> Aug 25 17:21:30 neo qmail: 1251238890.973347 delivery 128: deferral: >> /bin/sh:_/var/list/.bin/flist:_Permission_denied/ >> >> The only thing I did during this time was to add 'r' permission for the web >> server to one of the list dir, but wonder why mail to any other list address >> and -request addresses all got this "permission" problem. I looked at >> file/folder permissions and don't see anything odd. e.g.: >> drwxr-sr-x 2 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 10:16 ~list/.bin >> -rwxr-xr-x 5 slist slist 25K Jan 18 2007 ~list/.bin/flist >> drwxr-sr-x 3 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 13:35 ~list/mylist >> etc. >> >> Any hint what could be wrong? > > In my system: > > # ls -l /var/list/.bin/flist > -rwsr-xr-x 5 root list 25432 ene 18 2007 /var/list/.bin/flist > > Those are also the permissions of the executable inside the .deb. > Either those permissions were lost during the conversion to .rpm, > or maybe you changed them after installing the package. I didn't change it. Now I chmod my flist to be: -rwsr-xr-x 5 list list 25432 Jan 18 2007 /var/list/.bin/flist and I still get the same "deferral: /bin/sh:_/var/list/.bin/flist:_Permission_denied/" error. Zhiliang

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flist:_Permission_denied
by Zhiliang Hu 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Previously I got the Smartlist to work on this RH linux box. Today it quit working, nothing recorded in list log but this error in /var/log/maillog: Aug 25 17:21:30 neo qmail: 1251238890.973347 delivery 128: deferral: /bin/sh:_/var/list/.bin/flist:_Permission_denied/ The only thing I did during this time was to add 'r' permission for the web server to one of the list dir, but wonder why mail to any other list address and -request addresses all got this "permission" problem. I looked at file/folder permissions and don't see anything odd. e.g.: drwxr-sr-x 2 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 10:16 ~list/.bin -rwxr-xr-x 5 slist slist 25K Jan 18 2007 ~list/.bin/flist drwxr-sr-x 3 slist slist 4096 Aug 24 13:35 ~list/mylist etc. Any hint what could be wrong? Zhiliang

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Re: 64 bit?
by Zhiliang Hu 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Thank you - I found it... Now the Smartlist is happily working! Many thanks also to others who responded. Zhiliang On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Santiago Vila wrote: > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:31:24 +0200 (CEST) > From: Santiago Vila <sanvila(a)unex.es> > To: Zhiliang Hu <hu(a)animalgenome.org> > Cc: smartlist(a)lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE > Subject: Re: 64 bit? > >> I got helps from someone in our university to convert it to a rpm. The >> installation was smooth -- "100%" ... "installed". Although "rpm -qa >> smartlist" gives "smartlist-3.15-21" but I cannot find where it is installed. >> >> I suppose it is the binaries (everything in ~smartlist/.bin) got installed. >> Could you give more hints as how to piece things together with rpm install? > > Try > > rpm -ql smartlist > > Not that I use rpm myself, but google says that's the equivalent of "dpkg -L". > > Documentation is at /usr/share/doc/smartlist, and all the paths have > been modified to reflect what is used in the Debian package (for > example, the home directory for the lists is /var/list).

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