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[Maillist Administration <maillist@sfu.ca>]

Edit the Majordomo table used by maillist, and add an entry called
list-name-archive (Rob's amaint web interface can be used for this. I
think it's under "edit NIS tables" or some such. Will check. FA.) You need
to indicate which account will be the owner. E.g add irix-security-archive
with account siegert as the owner.) 

Until this is done, maillist will refuse to add list-name-archive as a
member of list-name when you try to do so (later) to complete the setup.

#Set up a web-accessible directory in the user's account to hold the archive:

1.  On rm-rstar, become su

2.  cd /home/accountname. Check the permission is 711

3.  If pub_html doesn't exist:  mkdir pub_html

4.  chmod 755 pub_html

5.  cd pub_html

6.  mkdir list-name (use the name of the maillist)

7.  chmod 775 list-name

8. chown account list-name (make the user the owner of the directory)

9. chgrp majordomo list-name (make majordomo the group owner)

#Set up a list-name-archive entry on rm-rstar to run mhonarc via 
#majordomo's wrapper program. list-name-archive will be added as a member 
#to the list-name maillist so that every time a message is sent 
#to list-name, a copy will be sent to list-name-archive, triggering mhonarc.
 

10.  vi /usr/local/majordomo/aliases

11. Make an entry like cihr-list, for list-name-archive. Make sure you 
specify the correct account name and list name (instead of acount ors and
list name cihr-list.)
 
12. As root on rm-rstar, type "newaliases" to make the new alias live.

13. You can test the archive by sending a message to list-name-archive .
Look for the message in http://www.sfu.ca/~account/list-name . Once done,
get rid of the test message and mhonarc indexes by deleting all the files
in /home/account/pub_html/list-name including a .mhonarc.db file. (This
is so that the user doesn't have an ugly test message at the start of
their archive.)

14. Modify list-name and add list-name-archive as a member. The setup is
now live. The next time someone sends a message to list-name, it should be
added to the archive.
 
15. Tell the user that the archive can be found at 
      http://www.sfu.ca/~account/list-name 
    (substitute their account name and the name of the list)