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[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 03:25:53AM -0400, AerosmithFanClub.com List Admin wrote:
> Does not work in a shared environment.  PERMISSION DENIED every time!
 
Uh?
You gotta be part of the group mailman to have permissions on the db.
 
> BTW if any of the programmers are here can I ask why a .db format was used 

Because you don't want to a access a 10,000+ membership list linearly.
That's programming 101.

> and not the much simpler ASCII file?  I mean this software is really great 
> at what it does.  The problem is (like I have mentioned before) that it is 
> not very flexible at all and you have to go through a lot of screens and 
> steps to do things.  I want to try to make this work on my server.  Please 

Not really,  you just try to  do all the  things it wasn't designed  for and
then complain that there isn't a front end of it.

If you needed to list the membership, you could do it with
~mailman/bin/list_members.
If you want a raw dump of the DB, you can get it with ~mailman/bin/dumpdb

What else do you want?
If you're missing the glue for what you want, you get to write it, the base
tools are there.

> give me help getting all of the excessive overhead turned off that we don't 
> need.

Eh, don't complain to  us if you need to shave the conners  off your cube as
you're hammering it into a round hole.
It's open source, you can do that if you want, but you get to shave the said
corners off, not us.
(Well, Barry & Zope.com take monetary bribes, but that's a different matter
:-p)

Marc
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