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On 12 May 2009 at 17:58, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:27:45AM -0400, Bernie Cosell wrote:
Is there a command-line way to "discard all messags marked defer"?
Actually a FAQ more specific to this question is <http://wiki.list.org/x/nIA9>.
I've been pushing on this some, to no avail at the moment. The simple part was finding the data directory, the wiki isn't exactly correct: on our install, at least, the data directory is in /var/lib/mailman. Since it seems to be constructed from VAR_PREFIX I'd guess that on most setups it'd be in a different place than ~mailman.
What I'm running into now is that the command-line pgm has to be run as user 'mailman' and I can't do that [at least not very easily]. I tried setting discard to be setgid, but that seems not to work, so I guess this is a followon question: is there a way to make python scripts run setuid/setgid? [basically, my situation is that I can only get to the mail server logged in as me, NOT logged in as mailman] -- I suppose I could always write a setgid Perl one-liner to run the Python discard..:o)
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