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Subject: [Mailman-Users] migrating to new server From: Pieter Donche <pieter.don...@ua.ac.be> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 15:55:51 +0200 (CEST) To: mailman-users@python.org >An old server is to be replaced with a new one. The old server >(solaris mailman-2.1.7) runs a couple of mailing lists. >We will keep the same web address and the same e-mail address on >the new server (FreeBSD7 mailman-2.1.11). > >In the old server the mailman software ran under a normal user >with everything in the home-dir of that user. >In the new server it needs to be in /usr/local/mailman >(where FreeBSD installs it) > >What steps need to be executed to migrate all the mailings lists (archives >memberslists etc...) from the old to the new server? >I have unix root access to both machines. > >Is there a step by step document ? There's information in the FAQ. In your case, all you really need to do is move the contents of Mailman's lists/* and archives/private/* directories from the old installation to the new. You may not want to move the 'mailman' list. See the posts linked at the very beginning of the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/2oA9>. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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://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