Anna, Thanks for the link it helped.
To help anyone else that may have to problem. Here's the steps I took some are borrowed from the URL below: 1) tar-balled the mailman 1.x on server 'A' once it was "offline". 2) copied/extracted it to server 'B' 3) re-configured mailman 1.x using the new $PREFIX on server 'B' - make;make install (only do this if you have not modified the mailman code, otherwise you MIGHT overwrite some of your changes - this gets all the Mailman/Cgi/* using the write path and fixes Default.py, and the various paths.py 4) use withlist in a shell script to update the archive paths in each config.db file under lists/ - if you follow the link below it links to examples of shell scripts you can use 5) NOW go to your mailman 2.x directory and do a configure with the $PREFIX the same as mailman 1.x you copied onto server 'B'. - make; make install - make install "should" update without a problem -- mine did And there you have... The one step under http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11052.html which I disagreed with is recreating all the lists and then copying the config.db back over top of the new list. I'm not sure what was gained by that. I skipped that step and everything is working fine. From what I've seen looking through the code mailman does NOT as of 2.0.13 keep a central database of lists, so as I said I don't see what recreating all the lists buys you. Hope this helps -- Adam Brons Systems Engineer / Unix Support Group Office of Computing and Communications Services Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia. USA DSA ID 7680A17E: 7E88 F9EC 0799 3260 49DA DB77 0327 D32B 7680 A17E On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:21:42AM -0700, Fong, Anna wrote: > Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:21:42 -0700 > From: "Fong, Anna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Adam Brons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Adam, > > Try this thread: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11052.html > > > Hope this helps, > Anna > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Anna Q. Fong, Webmaster > California Data Exchange Center > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >On Behalf Of Adam Brons > > Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:36 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman > > > > I'm looking for some advice, here's the situation: > > > > I have mailman 1.x installed on server 'A'. We're upgrading mailman to > > 2.x but we're also moving it to server 'B'. On server 'A' the install > > directory for mailman is /usr0/mailman. On server 'B' the install > > directory for mailman is going to be /usr1/mailman. > > > > Symlinking /usr0/mailman to /usr1/mailman on server 'B' is NOT an option. > > > > Would it be easier to just do a fresh install of mailman 2.x on server 'B' > > and manually migrate the lists from the old server following the steps in > > "UPGRADING" and fixing whatever else may arise. Or should I copy the > > installation on server 'A' to server 'B' go through and make all the > > changes where the path is wrong and then do a make install of mailman 2.x > > on top of mailman 1.x? Or is there some much easier way to do this? > > > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > > Adam Brons Systems Engineer / Unix Support Group > > Office of Computing and Communications Services > > Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia. USA > > > > DSA ID 7680A17E: 7E88 F9EC 0799 3260 49DA DB77 0327 D32B 7680 A17E > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/