[Mailman-Users] question about list locking

2011-10-04 Thread Richard Haas
Greetings. Is there a relatively standard way to place a lock on a Mailman list with bourne/bash/etc. scripts? I see the interactive method using Mailman's *withlist* script (as described here http://www.gnu.org/s/mailman/site.html), but I need to place a lock so that an unattended perl script ca

[Mailman-Users] question about list locking

2011-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Richard Haas writes: > Is there a more straightforward way to lock/unlock a mailing list? Sure -- write your pruning code in Python. What's the big deal about a three-line withlist script? That's really the only way to guarantee that you'll get correct locking in the future with upgrades to Ma