On 3/28/07, Barry Finkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you know the schedule when the web-based file will change, then you >> can implement something like this. You could even run such a cron >> every five minutes, if you do not know when the list might be updated. >> I have other lists that are built on-the-fly at any time, and the list >> administrator wants to use them as soon as they are created in AFS. >> For these, an every-five-minute cron is not good, as I cannot prevent >> the list being used before it is updated. I currently have no solution >> for getting these lists from AFS to the local Mailman machine, as I do >> not know when any list will be updated. And I have not figured out how >> to have the list creator (a live person or a script) send some sort of >> signal to a root process on the Mailman machine to download the updated >> list file from AFS. >> >> Note that I have tested the script on my test Mailman machine, but I >> have not yet converted any of these lists from Majordomo to Mailman.
And Patrick Bogen replied: >Maybe I missed something, but it seems like the best solution for your >later case would be to use MySQL storage of membership, and have your >web application write to said MySQL database? One thing that I did not mention - I can used the shared AFS storage to retrieve updated list files, but I am not allowed to store any list information in AFS. For example, I cannot place the directory with the list .pck files in AFS. So, any process that changes an AFS list file (not on a set schedule) somehow has to signal the Mailman machine that there is an updated file in AFS to be processed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ 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
