On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:40:30 +0200 Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:44 PM -0400 2004-08-11, David Relson wrote: > > > No! Recursive grep commands include a directory specification, > > hence don't need to be executed from a specific subdirectory. My > > "egrep -r... /usr/lib/mailman" command searches mailman's source > > tree. > > I have no idea what OS you're using and where the "source" code > is placed relative to the data files, etc... on your system, but on > Mailman default installations, /usr/local/mailman is the home > directory for *everything* related to Mailman, including > source/executable code, log files, data files, queue directories, > etc.... > > If you run a recursive grep of the sort you recommend on the > entire /usr/local/mailman directory hierarchy, you are likely to run > into the 20,000 file problem previously mentioned. > > If you want to limit yourself to just the source code, you need > to search /usr/local/mailman/Mailman, /usr/local/mailman/bin, etc... > and make sure you don't include any of those log directories, queue > directories, etc....
Brad, I'm running mailman using the Mandrake 10.0 rpms. I apologize for not mentioning that fact. I assumed that the division of files between /usr/local/mailman and /var/lib/mailman was standard. Evidently I was mistaken. AFAICT, recursive grep isn't bothered by the number of files in a directory. As bogofilter's lead developer, I have a spam archive with large monthly directories. I frequently use recursive grep on that archive. As a test, I just ran it without incident for a directory with 37,619 files. Anyhow, details aside on grepping source code, I find mailman to be a useful and valuable tool. It's been running bogofilter's mailing lists for several months without problem. Thanks for the great work. David ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
