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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2004 19:56:02 PDT7
From:	"Bob" <tt336a5u02@sneakemail.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: majordomo

** Reply to message from "Steven Levine steve53@earthlink.net" on Tue, 13 Apr
2004 17:19:38 PDT7

> >I am trying to get majordomo installed on my system.
>
> First question, why? Just to learn about it or do you have something else
> in mind?

I have been looking at email servers and other mailing list programs to see
what we should use on the SCOUG site.

> >I have downloaded perl and I think it is installed properly.
>
> What have you done to test your install? Which version did you install?

The test that comes with the perl install says it seems to be installed
correctly but will not continue because it could not find a unix type shell
such as SH.

> >I don't know if I need a shell program to run majordomo. Anyone know?
>
> What are you really asking? cmd.exe is a shell. Are you asking if you
> need to run under sh.exe? I don't know for sure, but probably not.

Do I need SH or some other unix type shell?

> >I have downloaded majordomo.
>
> That's nice. What version did you download and from where? I pulled:
>
> http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/1.94.5/majordomo-1.94.5.tar.gz
>
> assuming you tried to pull the most recent available version.

v1.94.5

> >I can't seem to get it unTARed.
>
> I can only guess what you are doing wrong unless you provide something
> resembling a useful error message.

The full error message "process terminated by SIGPIPE".

The DOS version fail because of the long file names.

> [j:\tmp]gzip -?
> gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
>
> and
>
> [j:\tmp]tar -v
>
> This is GNU tar version 1.10 - AK 2.58, a tape archiving program.
>
> work just fine here on the archive pulled from Great Circle.

I will go look for it.

> >names in the majordomo TAR file. Any suggestion for a good OS/2 TAR
> >program?
>
> I've yet to have any version of gzip or tar fail unless the achive was
> corrupted.
>
> FWIW, if you are considering using Majordomo in place of inetmail, I
> recommend you consider the building and testing effort this will involve.

From what Peter has said something needs to be done soon because of the time
needed to run the SCOUG site. At the last meeting I volunteered to help test
email servers. Since then I have been the only one doing any testing because
Peter has not had the time and no one else stepped in to help.

Testing email servers and mailing list programs have so far shown that there
are two of the three email servers I would recommend and there is one of the
five mailing list programs I would recommend. I would like to see if Majordomo
can do what we need as another option.

--
Robert Blair

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