Re: mhastart.pl errors

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Gwinn wrote:
> I can run mhastart.pl, login, and use 'Add' to successfully create
> an empty archive.
>
> But the formatting of maillist.html and threads.html do not include
> the formatting changes that were in my rcfile.txt. It is the same
> rcfile.txt I used successfully under Windows. I unquoted $mrc,
> $archive, and $mbox on the mhastart admin display, and the actual
> paths shown are correct. (That is, the rcfile.txt and authoridx.txt
> are both in the directory specified by $mhonarc.)
>
> Any thoughts on why mhonarc is not seeing the rcfile.txt?

Yes. It's because the command executed through the 'Add' button does
not include the -rcfile option. To have mhonarc read rcfile.txt, and
update the archive database with its settings, you can enter this in
the "Other MHonArc command" field:

    mhonarc -editidx -rcfile $mrc -outdir $archive

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