Hi Pasi,
 
> Date:    Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:08:42 +0300
> From:    Pasi Kellokoski
>          <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: HP OpenDesk question
>
>  How can I make HP OpenDesk distribution lists update automatically??
>  We have several 3000s running HP Desk in different sites, so
>  keeping those distribution lists up to date is kind of difficult
>  by hand.
 
I am not quite sure if I understand your question correctly...
 
If you want to adjust (public or personal) distribution lists on a server (or
group of servers) because users changed names and/or locations/sublocations,
then you can use the UPDATEDL feature of Desk which is kind of "find and
replace" for distribution lists.
 
E.g. if John Doe moved from /HERE/01 to /THERE/01 and you want to avoid that
everybody having John on one or more DL's gets a lot of ugly non-delivery
errors until she manually updates all the respective distribution lists, then
you can send a message like this to *UPDATEDL and Desk will take care of it
and reply with a short result report:
 
 $ the 0001 can be UpdateUser, UpdatePublic or UpdateALL
 0001UPDATEALL
 $ change John Doe from /HERE/01 to /THERE/01
 4002John Doe /HERE/01
 4001John Doe /THERE/01
 
I guess, with multiple servers you simply can send the above
commands to *UPDATEDL on all these servers (using a DL again).
 
See OpenDesk Admin Reference (chapter 17) for details.
 
Cheers, Lars/iX
 
(only speaking for lappel, not for the German Response Center)