[Mailman-Users] withlist -q still not quiet

Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 19:19:47 CEST 2008


Mark, according to "withlist --help":

% bin/withlist [options] listname [args ...]

which means the listname is required on the command line, no?

How do I move the listname into a script instead?

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On 10/7/08, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> Kelly Jones wrote:
>
>>Why does "withlist -q test" say "The variable `m' is the test MailList
>>instance". Shouldn't -q suppress that message?
>
>
> Arguably it should, but no one anticipated you would want to supress
> the banner in interactive mode.
>
>
>>It's annoying because I run withlist stuff in cron and want it to run
>>silently unless there are errors. I realize I can:
>>
>>2| fgrep -v 'the variable `m' is the'
>>
>>or something, but that seems excessive.
>
>
> If withlist reads a script and is given -q and there are no
> warnings/errors, there will be no output.
>
>
> [msapiro at msapiro ...f/test-mailman]$ bin/withlist -a -r no_op
> Importing no_op...
> Running no_op.no_op()...
> Loading list century-announce (unlocked)
> Loading list century-announce-test (unlocked)
> Loading list list1 (unlocked)
> Loading list mailman (unlocked)
> Loading list test (unlocked)
> Finalizing
> [msapiro at msapiro ...f/test-mailman]$ bin/withlist -a -r no_op -q
> [msapiro at msapiro ...f/test-mailman]$
>
>
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