On 3/6/05 7:01 AM, John Fleming at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, it let me create the list and I could use bin/withlist commands on it > by enclosing listname in single quotes. Everything looked fine, but when I > tried my first post to the list, I got this back: > > The Postfix program > > <S&L@<domain>.org>: Command died with status 127: > "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post s&l". Command output: sh: line 1: l: > command not found post script, list not found: s > > So is ampersand in listname just not allowed? - John
I'd stay away from an ampersand. It has a special meaning in Unix commands (means execute the previous command in the background) and unless properly escaped, will be taken for that special meaning every time it occurs in a shell command. The command in that error message (/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post s&l) is a shell command and as I would expect, it was truncated at the ampersand and presumably executed in the background. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stonejongleux.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
