Re: ecos.sourceware.org and mailing list request

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>]

Wow, super speedy turnaround, thanks!

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org> writes:
>>That along with
>>recognising ecos.sourceware.org in the s.r.c web server as a virtual
>>host going to /ecos/ ?
> 
> 
> Done.  Note that the GIF is broken on ecos.sourceware.org, though it
> works on sourceware.org/ecos, because the IMG SRC uses an absolute
> path.  There may be other similar problems.

Probably, but now we'll be able to find them more easily :-).

> I kept the same CustomLog and ErrorLog, as was also done by some of
> the other virtual hosts.  However, the current log format does not
> indicate which host was requested.  I recommend adding %v at the start
> of the `combined' LogFormat line in httpd.conf, which will put the
> virtual host at the start of each line.  However, I didn't want to do
> that without checking with other people.

It will make log analysis difficult for those who do that certainly, but 
changing the format will also do that.

>>Finally, could someone set up the ecos-bugs mailing list slightly
>>differently.... right now it's set up only to receive mail from
>>bugzilla@redhat.com. However due to unfortunate unresponsiveness by
>>the bugzilla.redhat.com maintainer I've finally given up with this
>>approach :-|. So instead could that restriction be temporarily
>>removed? A bit later I'll want something like
>>bugzilla-admin-daemon@ecoscentric.com to replace it, but not yet to be
>>sure there aren't any teething troubles.
> 
> 
> I commented out the line in ~alias/.qmail-ecos-bugs which I believe
> was enforcing this restriction.  I haven't tested it.

It appears to work fine, thanks.

>>If there's any way I could help (e.g. by "borrowing" root to save you
>>guys time) then please just say. I don't want to cause you all hassle!
> 
> As they say, lend somebody root for five minutes, and they have it for
> all eternity.

Heh :-).

Thanks again,

Jifl
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