[1123] in Moira
exciting new blanche options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Mon Sep 8 16:30:46 1997
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 16:30:31 -0400
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: accounts@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
After Dot's bulk-list-renaming problem last week, I got thinking about
adding new options to blanche, and then Mark mentioned something this
morning about Accounts being bogged down in mailing list requests, so
I decided to do it now.
So there's now a new-and-improved blanche. There's a man page and a
usage error message to explain all the new options, but basically,
"blanche -C listname" will create a list (active, private, visible,
mail, notgroup, no description, owned by $USER), and you can use the
other flags to modify those options. So like:
blanche -C danw-test-4 -group -notmail -O dbadmin -a danw -D "foo bar" -i
Creates danw-test-4, makes it a group and not a mailing list, sets the
owner to LIST:dbadmin, adds danw, changes the description, and then
prints out the list info at the end. (Each option has a long name and
a short name, just like the old options, except that the new options
all have capital letter short names.)
There's also `blanche listname -R newname' to rename a list, and you
can also use the various new options to modify existing lists. (ie,
`blanche foo -mail' will make foo a mailing list without changing
anything else about it.)
Have fun. (And tell me if there are any bugs, or if you think the
default list-creation options should be different.)
-- Dan
