[Mailman-Users] New user comments

[Dan Lowe]

Previously, Derek Simkowiak said:
> -> Aw, come on:
> -> 
> -> #!/bin/ksh
> -> LIST=foo
> -> OWNER=dmick at west.sun.com
> -> PASSWORD=password
> 
> 	So now I need to manually edit this script each time before I run
> it, instead of just answering prompts.
> 
> 	Of course, you could write in the prompts into your script, and
> parse the input... adjusting, of course, for invalid input incase I hit a
> typo... tell me again how that's easier than just having bin/newlist write
> out a text file?

You could always do this...

 ./newlist listname owner at domain.com somepassword  > listname-aliases.txt
    [wait 3 seconds]
    [hit enter]

Then with about 3 seconds of work in vi on /tmp/listname you'd have your
alias import file and you can do with it as you wish.

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