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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

I can't think of any command that would help you doing that.
I'm afraid you'll have to script that.
Each list directory contains a "msg_count" file that stores basic 
information on each message sent by the list. Each line of this file 
contains two values:
-the first is an epoch date divided by 86400. It corresponds to a day 
number.
- the second is the number of messages sent to the list that day.

There are only entries for days when messages were actually sent. So 
just find the highest value, multiply it by 86400 and you'll have the 
latest epoch date when a message was sent to the list. You can find 
inspiration in the code of the do_get_inactive_lists function:

For each list, do:

         my $last_message;

         if (open COUNT, $list->{'dir'}.'/msg_count') {
             while (<COUNT>) {
                 $last_message = $1 if (/^(\d+)\s/ && ($1 > $last_message));
             }
             close COUNT;

         }else {
	     &wwslog('info', 'Could not open file %s', $list->{'dir'}.'/msg_count');	     
	 }


$last_message contains the highest value .

Then use the sympa.pl script with --close_list option.

and here you go !

Actually, giving you these guidelines makes me realize that it would be 
very easy to integrate such a feature in the Sympa distribution; 
Something else on the todo list, I guess...

Regards

David


Wendell Epps a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to find a way to automatically clean up some lists on our 
> Sympa servers. My team and I are in the process of setting up two new Sympa 
> servers, and before we migrate our lists from the old to the new, we'd like 
> to be able to clean up some of the older lists.
>
> For example, we'd like to delete lists that may be older than 6 months and 
> have not been used at all, or the ones that have been used in the past, but 
> have been dormant for a long period of time. Would anyone have a helpful 
> script or something to assist us with that? I did a cleanup a few months 
> back, but that was all manual work. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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> Wendell Epps
> Enterprise Messaging & Collaboration
> IT@JH - Mt. Washington
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