Re: [Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread Carl Zwanzig
In a flurry of recycled electrons, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Larry Stone wrote: > > >> 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 ti

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Fleming wrote: Larry Stone wrote: >> 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. > >Than

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread John Fleming
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. Thanks, Larry. I didn't find anything about it in the FAQ.

Re: [Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread Larry Stone
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 > >

[Mailman-Users] More on ampersand in listname

2005-03-06 Thread John Fleming
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 .org>: Command died with status 127: "/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman pos