On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Eric Thomas wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:48:35 +1000 David M > <[log in to unmask]> said: > > >BTW after I restart the changes I made to the templates are not > >reflected in the Lists index page. Why is that? > > Pretend you had 10,000 lists and LISTSERV always rebuilt the xxx.html > files during startup even if this were not needed... Mmmm good point! Obviously this would be a problem, but how many ppl have 10,000 public lists running? :) I guess a compromise could be to set an option in the conf file that changes this behaviour according to the user's preferences. Also the files should only be updated if and only if the template files (relevant to the WWW) are updated (otherwise not point rebuilding them). > >I would recommend that in future releases the WA script overwrites this > >files with the news ones so that changes to the templates can be seen > >without manually having to delete the archive files. > > But they are not created by WA. If you are restarting LISTSERV to refresh > all the html files in your archive directory, you should simply remove > them before the restart. This way you are sure LISTSERV will rebuild > them. Otherwise it tries to figure out whether they need to be rebuilt or > not and it does not account for human intervention in this decision. Yes that is what I ended up doing. I just removed the lot! When it restarted it just created them again, this time with the changes I had specified in the template. How does it account to rebuild or not the files? Is it based on the timestamp of the templates? If it is then something did not work as I did update (actually created) the www_archive template... Regards, David