On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Rubin Bennett wrote:
> Rion, in your first post, the compatibility for the LSoft listserv lists 
> both Linux and Unix.  Where's the mystery?

Hi Rubin. Thanks for asking; i tried google-searching to find out for myself.

The mystery is/was that a supposed unix box is serving .asp/.exe documents and 
as my 
post queried:  does linux/apache have the capability to do so out of the OSS 
box AOT the lsoft box?
I noticed that lsoft-listserv 1.14 runs/ran on linux hosts though, so i suppose 
linux runs 1.16 also,
 does it require/use some kind of a mono module to handle .NET?

A bit of reading seems to indicate that lsoft is a big popular package (lotsa 
functionality)
 that the school found it appealing over other listserv applications is 
probably not surprising.
 In web searching, discovered osdir.org runs it also. Is it suitable for SoHo 
or mid-sized orgs?

So, my original observation, poorly expressed as usual, was noticing the change 
and being curious about lsoft, in general and
about possible trade-off this environment exhibit related to .asp served by 
linux
www.linux.com/archive/feature/53582 
 compared to straight sendmail/postfix mailman and whether it factors/scales in 
light of
databases, webservers, and specially proxying for clustered/NATted hosts.

apache and a dso (mod_mono?  - http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page)
 or is it apache tomcat running java servlets (eclipse)?

I'd be curious to know why UVM decided to drop mailman (or was it majordomo?) 
and go with lsoft (classic?).
Was it more related to sub-clustering, maybe db overhead, or just a matter of a 
better application's
 UI accessibility/ease of use.
Does this listserv reside on same host(s) as SMTP? an AFS/GFS mount-point?

I thought I preferred a 'thin' mailman; just a bunch of cgi-scripts, low 
overhead on port 80 if it has to
be on the same host as 25/110/587/993.
 Despite being fw'd to one remote host, thinking about it, i'm gonna remove 
apache from mail*.* in favor of lighthttpd
or similiar, since its only accessed by one proxy for mailman users. 
I've always setup mailman and sendmail on same host, but am curious whether its 
possible for mailman to access remote smtp host.

wget 
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIXSimplified.pdf
LISTSERV Free Edition for Unix
That pdf is rather terse. Choose DBMS, compile,  setup web interface and 
cgi-bin and go.
Next, please choose which DB modules to link with.
OCI? (Requires that SQL*Net is installed on the local machine.) [y/n] n
DB2? (Requires that DB2 be installed on the local machine.) [y/n] n
UODBC? (Requires that unixODBC be installed on the local machine. DB2 must be 
disabled.) [y/n] n
wget 
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/install/LISTSERV16.0_InstallManual_UNIX.htm

For Sendmail, see the Telling Sendmail about LISTSERV section.
For Postfix, see both the Sendmail section and the Telling Postfix about 
LISTSERV section.
For qmail, see the Telling qmail about LISTSERV section. 

Are you guys able to run mySQL via  ODBC? Or do you run Oracle?

Anyhow, I was just being curious and another 45 minutes of web-sniffing didn't 
yield much by way of answers.


Rion

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