[Mailman-Users] Hint: mmdsr.sh and Mac OS X Leopard

[Brad Knowles]

That will break on some older systems. Since there is a mutual  
incompatibility problem here, we need to give people an easy way to  
select between the two options, depending on their OS.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-Internet.org>

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On Jan 3, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> Steve Burling wrote:
>
>> Over the holiday, I took the opportunity to do a long-overdue  
>> hardware and
>> OS upgrade of my home Mailman server.  I'd been running Mac OS X  
>> 10.3.9
>> (!), and moved to a slightly-less-antique box running Mac OS X  
>> 10.5.1.
>>
>> Mostly, everything went smoothly, but there were a few minor  
>> gotchas.  One
>> was with mmdsr.sh, and I thought I might save some others the  
>> headache of
>> figuring this out.  I was getting errors from the 'sort' invocation  
>> in the
>> line that produces the "Hourly Summary of Posts":
>>
>> $SED -e 's/^[A-Z][a-z][a-z] *[0-9]* //' -e 's/:.*$//' $TMPLOG |  
>> $UNIQ -c |
>> $SORT -n +1 | $AWK '{ printf( "%8d  %02d:00-%02d:59\n", $1, $2,  
>> $2 ) }' >>
>> $TMP
>>
>> It turns out that according to:
>>
>> <http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Darwin/RN-Unix03Conformance/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004772-DontLinkElementID_5 
>> >
>>
>> 'sort' no longer supports the form 'sort +POS1 -POS2', instead  
>> needint the
>> form 'sort -k POS1,POS2'.  Of course, In that form POS1 and POS2 are
>> 1-based rather than 0-based.  So the 'sort' part of mmdsr.sh line  
>> above
>> becomes, instead,
>>
>> $SORT -n -k 2
>>
>> Hope this saves someone some head scratching...
>
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> I observed the same problem when I moved my lists from an FC2 box to a
> CentOS 5 box, but neglected to report it.
>
> I have now added mmdsr version 0.0.17 to
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=300103&aid=1123383&group_id=103 
> >
> which fixes this and also includes a change to process rotated logs.
> This version will be distributed with Mailman 2.1.10.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
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