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Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Bug #596565, mailman should use alphabetic
From: barry () zope ! com (Barry A ! Warsaw)
Date: 2002-08-23 14:07:33
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>>>>> "NB" == Norbert Bollow <nb@cisto.com> writes:
NB> Barry A. Warsaw <barry@zope.com> wrote:
>> Does this patch help make building, distributing, and moving
>> Mailman easier for folks?
NB> Yes, definately. A major server with lots of Mailman installs
NB> died on us recently due to hardware problems. I had to do an
NB> emergency move which got much more messy than expected because
NB> I hadn't realised in time that all those wrapper scrips have
NB> the numeric GID's compiled into them. (The symbolic GID's are
NB> identical on both machines, but the numeric GID's weren't.)
Cool. That's what I'm hoping. Can anybody see any security problems
with this approach? I'm having a hard time seeing any holes, so I
think it's a win.
Oh BTW, the new (experimental) maildir delivery approach would also
improve the independence by eliminating the mail wrapper at least.
-Barry
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