On 10/31/06, Dr. Scott S. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Broken, in that it won't send out through my MTA, which in my case is Exim4, > or in another who's had trouble with mailman on debian, through Postfix. It > seems that when he moved his data files, and purged mailman and then > reinstalled it. He claims it works now.... Well, my point was, if your mailman is broken because something is wrong with your list config files, keeping the list config files and reinstalling everything else won't help anything. :)
> My question then is which files does one move out of the way of the wrecking > ball, a la apt-get --purge mailman etc.... so that one doesn't have to > recreate the list after reinstallation? If you aren't concerned about list archives, I believe you only need the files in (on Debian) /var/lib/mailman/lists/* Each list should have its own directory, with a config.pck, possibly config.pck.last, and (possibly?) a request.pck. Archives are in /var/lib/mailman/archives; they can be regenerated from some subset of the files in this hierarchy (I believe its those under listname.mbox/), but I'm not sure if that's all that's required. If you can read bash script, FAQ 4.18 <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.018.htp> might help you figure all this out. P.s., Please CC the list on all replies, so that more well-versed folk can chime in when I might not know the answer. -- - Patrick Bogen ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp