Jewel Makda wrote: >I have a questions and am hoping someone can explain it to me. I run >backups on the lists on my Mailman server. One of the directories I tar >up is: >/usr/local/mailman/lists/* >The size of the tar file was about 34KB every week. All of a sudden >when I ran my last backup it was 7KB. The only change I made was I >changed my cron file to send digests out daily, before this was disabled >and digests were only being sent out when they reached their size. Could >this be the cause of the small tar file since digests are now going out >daily?
Absolutely. The messages for the next digest are stored in lists/listname/digest.mbox. When you were triggering digests on size only, these files were averaging half their max size. Now that you are sending digests daily, they are smaller. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
