On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:06 AM, Kelsey Forsythe wrote:
> I've recently moved to a new server. It is an Xserve G5 running
> 10.4.3 OSX.
> I'd like to migrate the mailman lists from the old server (Xserve G4).
>
> Does anyone have experience migrating lists?
> If so, please let me know what procedure you followed.
My experience was similar to Paul's: dead easy. My steps were
slightly different; and I had been running the new Xserve with some
test lists before copying the files over. These are my notes for the
final switchover:
on old lists
mailmanctl stop
on old list server, copy files to personal workstation:
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/lists
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/ --progress
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/data
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/ --progress
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh /home/mailman/archives
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/ --progress
shutdown old lists hardware
on new lists:
--copy from personal workstation to staging area
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/lists /
var/mailman/new --progress
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/data /
var/mailman/new --progress
sudo rsync -a --delete -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/
archives /var/mailman/new --progress
--fix staging area
cd /var/mailman/new
rm -r lists/mailman
rm data/adm.pw data/aliases data/aliases.db
data/master-qrunner.pid
data/sitelist.cfg
sudo chown -R mailman:mailman /var/mailman/new
--fix symbolic links in public directory
cd /var/mailman/new/archives/public
sudo ~/bin/fixlinks *
--move from staging area to live
sudo scp -pr /var/mailman/lists /var/mailman/data /var/mailman/
archives /Users/cole/mailmanvar
sudo mv /var/mailman/new/lists/* /var/mailman/lists
sudo mv /var/mailman/new/data/* /var/mailman/data
sudo mv /var/mailman/new/archives/* /var/mailman/archives
--add alias lines to /var/mailman/data/aliases
--note that I had kept a list of lists in FileMaker, along with
the
necessary aliases for each
--this is what I copied
cd
sudo scp -p [EMAIL PROTECTED]:Desktop/lists/list_aliases .
sudo vi /var/mailman/data/aliases
:r list_aliases
:wq
sudo /usr/sbin/postalias /var/mailman/data/aliases
--update data files
sudo /usr/share/mailman/bin/update
sudo bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- -v
--add IP address (change from test-ip to live-ip)
sudo changeip - test-ip live-ip
sudo networksetup -setmanual "Built-in Ethernet 1" live-ip
netmask
gateway
sudo networksetup -getinfo "Built-in Ethernet 1"
stop and start postfix from server admin?
The fixlinks script referenced above, because after the copy the
public alias links didn't work, as they were pointing to the wrong
directory:
===
#!/usr/bin/perl
$privatebase = "/var/mailman/archives/private";
while ($item = shift) {
$reallink = "$privatebase/$item";
print "Changing $item to $reallink\n";
unlink($item);
symlink($reallink, $item);
}
===
Jerry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.sandiego.edu/~jerry/
Maher 190/x8773
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