On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:33:15 -0500, Ed Paynter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I am a site administrator and have searched the archives of this list and
>have read the Site Manager's Operations Manual to try to answer this
>question. Perhaps someone can help. We are running the latest version 1.8c
>with the 1.8d upgrades.
>
>I have added a sub-catalog to our site's SITE.CATALOG file to allow the
>owner of (let's call it) ANYLIST to manage their own documents. Now let's
>call the sub-catalog ANYLIST.CATALOG.  I have PUT ANYLIST.CATALOG with
>these lines (skipping "*"s and blanks) to register a single test file:
>
>  put anylist.catalog pw=mypassword
>  test.list

If by the above you mean the contents of the 'anylist.catalog' were the one line
"test.list" then that is a problem.  There is a specific format of data in the
'anylist.catalog' (or any such sub-catalog).  Please reread Sec 8.4 of the Site
Manager's manual.

>That command returned a "successfully stored" message, but I have not
>sucessfully PUT test.list yet.

Files called *.list have a special meaning to LISTSERV, they are usually the
actual active list file for a particular list.  I suggest you change the name to
test.txt or something else that doesn't use a filetype that LISTSERV reserves
for other purposes.

>It seems to me that, since there could
>ultimately be multiple files in various different sub-catalogs with the
>same name, just sending:
>
>  PUT test.list pw=mypassword
>  document text
>
>as the documentation says should not be sufficient. How would LISTSERV know
>*which* test.file I was talking about? And, in fact, that attempt failed
>with a "file is not registered" response. So I tried this:
>
>  PUT anylist test.list pw=mypassword
>  document text
>
>and it, too, failed, saying the file is not registered. A "GET
>anylist.catalog" command returns the catalog with the "test.file" line, so,
>in short,

I have wondered about this too, but if the Non-VM PUT syntax borrows from the VM
syntax,  the format would be  PUT test.list anylist pw=mypassword

Although I suspect this doen't work either... 8-(

>How does one properly PUT a file that is registered in a sub-catalog?

Let's get rid of 'test.list' first and make it 'test.txt' to make sure that's
not confusing things.

>BYW, I am not the listed "PUT FAC" owner of the file (that's
>OWNER(anyfile)) and have been doing my testing as a site administrator.

This could be part of the problem, although the SiteAdmin, working from the
admin userID/address and using the createpw should have 'super-owner' powers as
well.

>Thanks.  Ed


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