Hi! On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:32:04PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Martin Oehler wrote on Mon, 3 May 2004 23:03:41 +0200: > > > Could someone point me in the right direction where to find > > documentation for moving/upgrading my lists? > > > > There isn't much to do when you want to move/upgrade lists. I upgraded > from the standard mailman which came with my Suse distribution (residing > in /var/lib/mailman or /usr/lib/mailman) and also was something like 2.0.x > by just installing 2.0.14 to /usr/local/mailman and then moving over the > content of the lists directory if I recall it right. I fiddled a bit > around in the mm_cfg.py and I think I replaced all aliases. There's also a > start script for starting the seven (or so) runner programs and you have > to change that, too, if you change the installation path. In Suse systems > this is a rcmailman symlink pointing at /etc/init.d/mailman. So I simply > replaced that with a symlink to the new mailmanctl file in the new > location. You can also copy that file over the old one at /etc/init.d, so > that it starts correctly after a reboot. > I then moved the list to another machine almost the same way, I only had > to do some extra steps using the withlist command for correcting the url > and mail hosts. (I also clone my lists this way.) The mailman lists are > almost completely building upon their own information, so even if you > don't change anything you get some results, f.i. the web interface will > work but all the links in it will point to the old location. It's then > very easy to resolve this step by step. If I understand you correctly, you > didn't change the host, so it should even be easier.
Thanks for your migration guide, I'll try this and report whether I was successful. Regards, Martin Öhler -- http://www.linuxtag.org ------------------------------------------------------ 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/