I don't WANT to it as I suspect it woudl be bad.. but the time wait is getting to be insane at times.
My current solution has been to copy it the config.db to a system that deos not emailing (or much of anything else) and do the work there then copy it back.. ugly .,. but I managed to get it sorted out... On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Greg Ward wrote: > On 04 December 2001, Tass Chapman said: > > Is there a quicker way to remove members than the UI or the remove_members > > tool? I can quickly use emacs to load and find the email in the config.db, > > but I am not sure of the syntax and am rather loathe to just delete at will. > > Aieee!! Don't do this -- you will completely hose Mailman's > configuration for that list. config.db is a binary file, you can't edit > it with a text editor. > > Hmmm... I wonder if a lot of the problems with people who have corrupted > config.db files arises from them editing it with Emacs, and then > wondering why Mailman crashes whenever it tries to load it. Should > remember to ask "Did you edit this file with a text editor?" next time > someone complains of tracebacks in marshal.load(). > > Greg > -- > Greg Ward - software developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- |Tass Chapman| [EMAIL PROTECTED] : PGP key @ pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371 | | http://www.kenderhome.com : KEYID: 0x5BC152A1 | |ICQ UIN:394570 | -- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
