On 6/11/18 4:36 AM, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > I tried using your script. The tar_list.sh script works fine. But, for the > untar_list.sh script, I had two fairly big problems.
Where did you find these scripts? They are not distributed by the GNU mailman project. > 1) the mailman user account did not have a home director or shell; I fixed > those problems handily. If your new server has a Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package, the Mailman user is 'list', not 'mailman'. > 2) I got a ton of permission/owner errors trying to untar the archives. The > private archives on the new server appeared to have been owned by root, > while the public archives appeared to be owned by www.-data; neither > untar-ed well with the script being owned by mailman. The best way to move archives is to just move the archives/private/<listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox file from the old server to the new and then run Mailman's bin/arch --wipe <listname> on the new server. See <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030624>. -- 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 https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org