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["Malcolm Waltz" <address@concealed>]

Hi Edward,

I agree, it would be nice if there was a better way of modifying list
configurations.

As a work-around for your particular case, have you tried using the
"owner_include" option?  I haven't tried it yet myself, but I think that
might be able to solve your problem.

Malcolm Waltz
Unix Systems Administrator III
Office of Information Technology
University of the Pacific

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On
Behalf Of Edward J Smith
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 11:12 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] updating list admins

Sympa v5.4.7
Oracle 10.2.0.4
Linux 2.6

We maintain a list for every section at our university, and I have a
need to update list owners when instructors fall off the rolls, or new
instructors are added.  But, there is no:  ./sympa.pl --update  command.

I can insert/delete DB records in the admin_table, but since the
respective "config" files are not simultaneously updated, it throws
things out of sync.

I've noted that updating the config file for a given list works (it also
updates the DB).  Is there something less brute-force than actually
rewriting the config file?

TIA,

Ed