Re: [tlug] Mailing list question

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On 2020-08-05 2:09 p.m., Jim Breen wrote:
> I am trialling MHonArc, which is used to manage the TLUG email
> archive. I cam make the complete thread and date order pages, but I
> can't work out the option to give me the month-by-month view as in the
> page athttp://lists.tlug.jp/ML/index.html
> Is it a standard MHonArc operation? If so can someone tell me the
> command-line options to get it?

We use a bash script (since at least 2000-08-02 apparently) that gets 
the YYMM, makes sure that directory exists, and then uses the mhonarc 
"--outdir $BASEDIR/$DATE" option to add the message there.

In part:

# make sure the directory exists for this month
if [ ! -d $BASEDIR/$DATE ]; then
        mkdir $BASEDIR/$DATE
        chmod g+s $BASEDIR/$DATE
        # make the month appear in the index by removing comment
        # markers of the form ##2002-10## (formerly update_indexes cron)
        /bin/sed -i.bak -e "/##$LONGDATE##/D" $BASEDIR/index.html
fi

# add this message
/usr/bin/mhonarc -quiet -spammode -outdir $BASEDIR/$DATE -rcfile 
/etc/mailman/mhonarc/$LISTDIR.rc -umask 002 -add >/dev/null 2>&1

Jim

P.S.  This is in the https://github.com/tlug/lists.tlug.jp repo by the 
way, which I marked as private just because it contains our server 
configuration. I can add you to the organization if you wish.  Or simply 
mail you a copy of the ugly script (that I would do differently 20 years 
later, but hey, it still works. ;-)