Follow-up to last message. Wasn't sure exactly how to examine the contents of the ourlist.mbox file in /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/ourlist.mbox
SO, I opened it with emacs just to see what it contained. The last message in that file is one I posted on July 7th. The prospects of recovering all those missing messages are looking dimmer and dimmer... Sigh! :-( -----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 5:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] What happened to my archive? Why isn't the archiveprocess running? TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote: > >I seem to be missing two full months worth of archives. From what I can tell >looking at my backups, it appears that the last time the archive process >actually ran on our old server was in early August. > > > >Then for some reason it stopped funning and thee have been no archive >updates since then. I suspect those "lost messages" aren't really lost at >all but are merely caught in some sort of internal blockage in mailman. What >I'm trying to figure out here is how to clear the clogged drain pipe and get >the archive working again. There are a few possibilities: 1) ArchiveRunner died on the old server in early August. In this case, the messages would be on the old server in the qfiles/arch/ directory. If that is the case, you could just move the contents of that directory to the corresponding directory on the new server and that should do it. 2) Some error was shunting the archived messages in which case they may be in qfiles/shunt/ and they may or may not be in the individual archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox files. If the messages are in qfiles/shunt/, you could just move them and rin bin/unshunt, but you need to be careful as not all the files in qfiles/shunt/ may be messages you want. You can look at these entries with bin/show_qfiles or bin/dumpdb. If the messages are in the listname.mbox files, the easiest thing is probably to rebuild the archives with bin/arch --wipe. >When I first installed the backup from the old server to the new one and >then checked the list's configuration parameters, I saw some parameters on >the Archiving options page that provided for "rebuilding" the archive. But >now those options seem to have disappeared now too. I don't know what you say, but there's nothing in the web Archiving Options page about rebuilding archives. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
