[ILUG] quick Debian question

[Justin Mason]

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Niall O Broin writes:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2004, jm at jmason.org (Justin Mason) wrote:
> 
> >> Yes definitely wrong, sorry for that. Didn't stop and think about the
> >> whole 600 thing. In my defense on my box (Debian testing) a lot of
> >> the log files belong to group adm and all of the others are world
> >> readable. This was default.
> >
> >Actually, no, you're right!  The logs *are* 640, group adm, so that
> >works just fine.   (I'd just assumed they were 600 without ls'ing them,
> >my bad). OK, that makes sense -- and sensible UNIXy design too.
> >
> >So, to recap: I edited /etc/group, added "jm" to "adm" line, then
> >logged out and back in again.  Works great...
> 
> Justin should be ashamed of himself for wasting all our time with such a
> sloppy question.

oops, my bad.  but at least it's all up there on the archive now for
google to pick up ;)

> I hereby sentence him to some community service.
> Perhaps he might be able to write some small piece of software that a
> few of us might find useful?

I'm sure I have something around here somewhere... hmm.
Hey, how's about this one?

http://jmason.org/software/scripts/moderate-list.txt

NAME

  moderate-lists - moderate some mailing lists from the command-line

SYNOPSIS

      moderate-lists [--dir=/dir] [--config=config]

      ... script outputs message synopsis...
      Moderation action [yna] (y=yes, n=no, a=allow address in future)? y
      ... script mails the correct address appropriately.

DESCRIPTION

  Works for ezmlm and MailMan 2.1.x lists, which both produce 'message
  awaiting moderation' mails with enough info to allow this to operate.


- --j.
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