On 12/24/2006 19:08, Anne Toal wrote:
> I need to run a report that will show me which lists have not have had 
> any posts in the past two years. Can someone please tell me how to do that?
>

There is no built-in function to provide this type of report. There are probably
several ways to attack this problem; here are two suggestions.

1. If most lists are configured to maintain changelogs, you may be able to
    obtain the information you need from the changelog files for the individual
    lists. You will need to retrieve a copy of the changelog file for each list,
    store all of the changelog files in one location, and write a script to
    extract the required information from the changelog files.

2. If most lists have archives, write a script to walk the list archives tree
    and return the modification date for the most recent log file for each list.

Both suggestions rely on configuration settings which may not be in use on some
lists, so neither is guaranteed to produce a complete report.

-- 
Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
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