[Mailman-Users] How to detect if a new list is created

[Mark Sapiro]

On 9/25/19 7:12 AM, Peter Heitzer wrote:
> Is there a simple method to detect if a new list was created?
> As mailman updates the alias file (/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases in our installation) with any new list I thought of 
> checking the modify date of the aliases file.
> Is this a sufficient method?


It should work, or you could check the mod date of Mailman's lists/
directory.

What I would do is save the output of an 'ls' of Mailman's lists/
directory and set up a cron to 'ls' the directory, compare it to the
saved 'ls' and if different, update the saved 'ls' and email me.

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