On 3/28/07, Barry Finkel <b19141@britaine.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:

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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.

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