[Mailman-Users] Passing the list name to the cgi scripts, called with backticks in Perl

[BobLaJolla at aol.com]

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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