On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 05:29:10PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On snein 19 April 2009, Cristian Rigamonti wrote:
> > The upstream source package contain a very useful script to produce daily
> > statistics and error reports: /contrib/mmdsr
> >
> > Why is this not included in the Debian package?
>
> It can not simply be copied into the package as it will not work without
> editing the script, currently.
To have it included, we'd probably need a patch to:
(a) alter the paths to something more debianistic
(b) use some e.g. debconf majick to receive/store the mail
addresses to be defined as:
(i) SENDER=
(ii) RCPTS=
(c) Handle MYUID=/RUNAS= (but see below)
lines 277 -> 290 of
~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1 : /contrib/mmdsr (revision 1198) [1]
could possibly be re-implemented (i'd be inclined to use /proc/$$ :
can't remember how portable that is, mind); saying that, were I to
re-write, I'd probably be more inclined to change the test to check if
the user were a member of the appropriate group (i.e., e.g. for
Debian, 'list'), rather than root, or a specified user. That might,
however, break portability. I guess debconf could take an array of
users, and use the array for populating the MYUID (as it currently
stands) variable/definition.
Thoughts?
[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/annotate/head%3A/contrib/mmdsr
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