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Eric Thomas <ERIC@LEPICS>
Tue, 23 Jan 90 12:44:15 GMT
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Dayna, your  filelist does not  actually exist. By  that I mean  that you
have created  an entry in  LISTSERV FILELIST for  it, and you  have taken
steps to  have postings archived,  but you  have not created  a 'listname
FILELIST'  file. Because  of this,  the corresponding  entry in  LISTSERV
FILELIST stays blank.
 
However, it  is generally not necessary  to create or define  a 'listname
FILELIST' for  list archives. If  you just create  a new list  and enable
archival of  postings, LISTSERV  will automatically generate  a "virtual"
filelist  whenever  someone does  an  'INDEX  listname' (or  any  similar
command). This  virtual filelist does not  exist on the disk,  because it
contains  zero information  (since  it  is built  from  the  output of  a
LISTFILE command and the value of  a couple list keywords); keeping it on
the disk would  not only mean a  waste of disk space, but  also extra CPU
time and  I/O since the file  would have to  be updated every time  a new
posting is archived.
 
You have two options:
 
1. Create a 'listname FILELIST'  containing entries for whatever you want
   EXCEPT the archive files. LISTSERV will automatically append "virtual"
   entries to it for all the LOGxxxx files it generates.
 
2. Delete  the entry  for  'listname FILELIST'  in  LISTSERV FILELIST.  A
   virtual entry for 'listname FILELIST' automatically exists in NOTEBOOK
   FILELIST. That is, you really don't  need to worry about the 'listname
   FILELIST' at all when you set up a list for archival.
 
Eric

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