Errata

Managing Mailing Lists

Errata for Managing Mailing Lists

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page xiv

The email address in the first paragraph did read:

bookquestions@ora.com

Now reads:

bookquestions@oreilly.com

 Anonymous    Oct 01, 2000
Printed
Page 12
first code sample under "Asking for Help" now looks

like this

From andrea@mac23.mogo.edu Sat Dec 6 10:51:03 1997
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:51:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: Andrea Thompson <andrea@mogo.edu>
To: majordomo@lists.io.com
Subject: information

help
lists

line 1: deleted "::digests" from the end of the line,
changed "Feb 15" to "Dec 6"
(there are two spaces between "Dec" and "6").

line 2: changed "15 Feb" to "6 Dec"
(there is only one space between "6" and "Dec")

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 18
paragraph 1, line 2: changed "and who does it serve?"

to "and whom does it serve?"

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 21
code sample, last line: changed "human being" to

"mammal"

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 23
On line 13: "(2)" now reads "(3)"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 35
In the table of contents section of the sample multipart/digest

message, there is now a blank line between the "Content-Type" header
and the body of the part.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 45
Table 2-1, row 8, "Lists can have a Comment header

easily added," MD column: changed "N" to "Y"

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 104
last paragraph: changed "which incorporates many of

the Listproc 8.0 features in a free package." to
"which fixes many of the bugs in the 6.0c release."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 151
The 3rd paragraph under the 'Installing the System' heading

(the one that begins "If you plan to archive...") should be deleted.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 153
paragraph 1, line 4: after the sentence,

"You need to create these directories, however."
added this footnote:

"Note that the wrapper test created a default lists directory
under W_HOME, but you don't have to use it."

("wrapper" is italicized, and "W_HOME" is in constant-width
font.)

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 157

The fourth line of the first code sample did read:

% chmod 644 haberdashers

Now reads:

% chmod 664 haberdashers

 Anonymous    Oct 01, 2000
Printed
Page 157
first code sample, last line: changed

% chmod 600 haberdashers.passwd
to
% chmod 660 haberdashers.passwd

("660" is also in constant-width bold.)

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 157
code sample under item 3, line 9: changed

"/home/majordomo/runtime/wrapper request-answer haberdashers"
to
"|/home/majordomo/runtime/wrapper request-answer haberdashers"

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 159

The third line of the last code sample on the page did read:

-l haberdashers-digest haberdashers-digest-outgoing"

Now reads:

-l haberdashers-digest haberdashers-digest-doit"

 Anonymous    Oct 01, 2000
Printed
Page 161
Mid-page, before Archives, the "example of distributing digests weekly"


0 8 * * 1 /home/majordomo/runtime/wrapper digest -p -C -l listname

there was a missing final argument. Now reads

.......... digest -p -C -l listname listname-outgoing

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 163-164
Replaced all references to "archive" that were italicized

or in code listings with "archive2.pl".

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 163
Replaced the paragraph that began "archive is not installed..."

and the boldface code that followed it (up to and including "% chmod
755 archive") with this Note:

Majordomo also comes with two other unsupported archiving
programs: archive.pl and archive_mh.pl. The former produces
archives that resemble Listproc; the latter uses the archiving
building features of the mh mail system. Neither offers the
functionality of archive2.pl, but if you're interested in them,
you can find them in the runtime/Tools subdirectory. You'll
probably want to copy them to the runtime directory if you plan
to use them. We assume that you'll stick with archive2.pl.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 180
The first variable in the "Even more control: rc.local files" section

now reads:

"RC_LOCAL_SUMBIT_00"

Should read:

"RC_LOCAL_SUBMIT_00"

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 234
description "majordomo.cf": deleted the sentence

"Configuration directives are explained in detail later in this
appendix."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 1998
Printed
Page 235
Under section "config File Directives", line 2, "listname.config,

editich10 ng the file, and 9781565922594 it ...": "editch10 ng" now reads
"editing"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 245
In the footnote: "procmail sr" has been changed to "procmail src"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 253
In line 7: "igest_age" now reads "digest_age"

Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000