this is what i wrote. the option in the makefile was a bit too simple. we currently use sendmail and the listserv part of the aliases file is not kept in /etc/aliases. sendmail is used to rebuild the aliases database automatically. the script always creates a notebook directory which is somewhat wasteful but much simpler. it does very little error checking. #!/bin/sh DATE=`date` WHOAMI=`who am i|cut -d' ' -f1` LISTHOME="listserv/home" list=`echo $1|/bin/tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` if test "${list}X" = "X" then echo No list name given. echo Usage: $0 listname exit fi cat >> $LISTHOME/aliases <<EOF # aliases for ${list} listserv list # created on $DATE by $WHOAMI ${list}:"|$HOME/bin/lsv_amin $HOME/spool ${list}" owner-${list}:"|$HOME/bin/lsv_amin $HOME/spool owner-${list}" ${list}-server:"|$HOME/bin/lsv_amin $HOME/spool ${list}-server" ${list}-request:"|$HOME/bin/lsv_amin $HOME/spool ${list}-request" EOF mkdir $HOME/notebooks/${list} chown listserv $HOME/notebooks/${list} -------- In reply to: I seem to recall that someone said they had a unix shell script (perl?) that would automagically take care of the details of creating a new list on the Unix listserv (eg. add the appropriate aliases to the sendmail.cf file, etc). I am very much interested in getting a copy of such a beast. Does it exist, or was it just "wish list" of things hoped for? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Barnes (409) 846-3273 (home) [log in to unmask] (409) 845-8300 (work) http://helper.tamu.edu/STAFF/cbarnes/ "The Wizard of VM" - The Battalion, Sept. 12, 1996 --------------------- -- paul [log in to unmask] |public keys at: pjg@ubvm | http://urth.acsu.Buffalo.EDU/~pjg/key.html if the above contains opinions they are mine unless marked otherwise.