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["Gavin Younger" <address@concealed>]

Hello,

I'm trying to set things up such that when creating a list on the web
interface, the list gets created inside a particular "standard" family
(we are wanting to migrate a large number of lists from our legacy MLM
to sympa, and am using the list families facility to achieve this -
however any *new* lists that get created on the web interface, I'd like
also to be added to this "standard" list family)

So, in /home/sympa/etc/create_list_templates/template-name/config.tt2,
I'm putting the line : 

family_name standard

which, in theory, should add the new list to the list-family named
"standard"...

My problem is that when attempting to subsequently edit any parameters -
it fails with the following in the logfile : 

Jun 20 16:04:38 ucsmlm1 wwsympa[2908]: Unable to open file
/home/sympa/expl/blah/config_changes :  
Jun 20 16:04:38 ucsmlm1 wwsympa[2908]: Impossible to load file
config_changes from list blah 
Jun 20 16:04:38 ucsmlm1 wwsympa[2908]: [robot newcastle.ac.uk] [client
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] [user  address@concealed] [list blah]
do_savefile: cannot write in config_changes for deleted parameters from
list blah 

When the list is created initially, the config_changes file (required to
preserve list customization upon family 
re-instantiation) doesn't appear to be being created 

Is this a bug? (or shouldn't I be using families in this way?)

I can get things working fine by creating the config_changes file
manually, but I'd like to have it done automatically when the list is
created if possible...

Regards,

Gavin Younger,
Unix Systems,
Information Systems and Services,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK