On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Paul Russell wrote: > Do other Listserv sites have a need to do the sorts of things that I've > been doing? If so, what kind of tools are you using, and where did you > get them? If they're "homegrown", are you willing to share them? I migrated all of our VM lists to unix (solaris) in Oct. I've got a perl script I used to create all of the "/etc/aliases" for sendmail that you can have if you like. That was my first step. I have another perl script that created all of the directories for lists that had notebooks on VM. I also have a C script (previously posted to lstsrv-l) called fandr.c that permitted me to make global changes to certain list headers for keywords for all lists. I've got a distribute job with a notice to all list owners of the migration you can have to modify if you like. It was a big job as I recall, and taking the advice of someone else who posted to lstsrv-l (can't remember the person's name who said it, but it was good advice), don't do all lists at the same time! Finally, I've got a rexx program that will do all of the ftp'ing of list files for you. Drop a note with what you might want. > pdr (even more clueless in unix than i am in vm) Well, one thing I noticed was that Listserv almost runs itself on unix when compared to everything you have to do on VM. Might be my bias as I learned to run it on unix first and on VM later. --Trish ---------------- Trish Forrest Listserv Postmaster Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada (613) 545-2014