Hello,

In order to utilize my site's dynamic header, footer, banner ad programs, etc., I am generating the mailman HTML enveloping content with a Perl script, and calling mailman's cgi scripts, as appropriate, using a shell command.
Example below:

$listinfo_output = /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo;

Note backticks to invoke this script from the shell in my Perl script.

This successfully loads the variable "$listinfo_output" with the output from the mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo command, from there I can print or extract content from the HTML as useful.

My problem is, to get any list-specific output from the mailman/cgi-bin/* scripts, I need to be able to pass the listname to the script - and I can't figure out how to do this with the shell command. If I follow the standard syntax from the web (e.g. /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/somelist) the shell looks for a non-existent program in the non-existent listinfo directory (listinfo is, of course, a script).

Using the scheme outlined above, how can I pass the listname to the various cgi-bin scripts from mailman to capture their list-specific output for
customized pages?

I do realize there are templates for customizing the HTML, but these are not useful for server side include files and scripts, on which my site depends heavily.

Thanks in advance... :o)

Bob R

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