On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:06:44 +0200, Tifra said:
 
(I am assuming that since you are migrating, that you already have a basic
idea of how to run Listserv under VM...)
 
> I need Ideas to do this management, Could someone tell me what I have to do to
> maintain 10 lists.
 
Well, it's pretty similar to maintaining 10 lists on the VM version.  And the
instructions on how to FTP over a list actually *do* work.  The biggest problem
is that you have to fix the Notebook= entry in the header to specify a pathname
rather than a disk address..
 
> Do I need a script or a program to screen message addresed to the list before
> they hit the LISTSERV program.
 
Well.. other than setting up the /etc/aliases file as per the documentation,
there's not much script or program to do.
 
> What about listserv.log, could we have the same information in our mail box ?
 
Gaak. No.  You probably do *NOT* want to have this sent to your mailbox - it
contains basically the same information as the VM console log does.  Especially
for high-volume sites, this file could easily get larger than your mail
system could handle (the listserv.log for listserv.vt.edu for yesterday ran
to 21 megabytes - this *will* give sendmail indigestion.... ;)
 
What you *probably* want to do is write a little program that reads the
Listserv and Sendmail logs and produces a one-page summary of activity,
and just keep the logfiles on disk if you need to refer to them in case of a
problem.
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Computer Systems Engineer
                                Virginia Tech