I have a situation which I don't know how to solve better than I have and I'd like to get some feedback from you folks. We have a RedHat box which we are using, by way of a little trickery, as the MLM(majordomo) in concert without our Novell Groupwise mail server. Now, the U has the central Peoplesoft dbs which our data guy pulls info about our department from and generates all sorts of file for us so we can populate the Majordomo mailing lists and the Groupwise addressbooks. The problem is that we have been able to automate most of the process for importing the address books but not the mailing lists. We are importing from Oracle to a windows SQL server where the data is manipulated and puked out into the formats we need but I cannot think of a good way to get it from windows to Redhat. I thought of running samba but it seems a little daunting and a bit much condering this is one person and one task; I'd just much prefer not running the service. Any other ideas? The only other thing I could come up with was a root level cron which would sweep an ftp'able folder for new files...if it finds them, they are copied to the majordomo lists directory. This, of course, is only for updating the lists... suggestions? ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org