Anna,
Thanks for the link it helped.
To help anyone else that may have to problem. Here's the steps I took
some are borrowed from the URL below:
1) tar-balled the mailman 1.x on server 'A' once it was offline.
2) copied/extracted it to server 'B'
3) re-configured mailman 1.x using the new $PREFIX on server 'B'
- make;make install (only do this if you have not modified the mailman
code, otherwise you MIGHT overwrite some of your changes
- this gets all the Mailman/Cgi/* using the write path and fixes
Default.py, and the various paths.py
4) use withlist in a shell script to update the archive paths in each
config.db file under lists/
- if you follow the link below it links to examples of shell scripts
you can use
5) NOW go to your mailman 2.x directory and do a configure with the
$PREFIX the same as mailman 1.x you copied onto server 'B'.
- make; make install
- make install should update without a problem -- mine did
And there you have... The one step under
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11052.html which I
disagreed with is recreating all the lists and then copying the config.db
back over top of the new list. I'm not sure what was gained by that. I
skipped that step and everything is working fine. From what I've seen
looking through the code mailman does NOT as of 2.0.13 keep a central
database of lists, so as I said I don't see what recreating all the lists
buys you.
Hope this helps
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Adam Brons Systems Engineer / Unix Support Group
Office of Computing and Communications Services
Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia. USA
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:21:42AM -0700, Fong, Anna wrote:
Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:21:42 -0700
From: Fong, Anna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Adam Brons [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adam,
Try this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11052.html
Hope this helps,
Anna
Anna Q. Fong, Webmaster
California Data Exchange Center
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Subject:[Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman
I'm looking for some advice, here's the situation:
I have mailman 1.x installed on server 'A'. We're upgrading mailman to
2.x but we're also moving it to server 'B'. On server 'A' the install
directory for mailman is /usr0/mailman. On server 'B' the install
directory for mailman is going to be /usr1/mailman.
Symlinking /usr0/mailman to /usr1/mailman on server 'B' is NOT an option.
Would it be easier to just do a fresh install of mailman 2.x on server 'B'
and manually migrate the lists from the old server following the steps in
UPGRADING and fixing whatever else may arise. Or should I copy the
installation on server 'A' to server 'B' go through and make all the
changes where the path is wrong and then do a make install of mailman 2.x
on top of mailman 1.x? Or is there some much easier way to do this?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Adam Brons Systems Engineer / Unix Support Group
Office of Computing and Communications Services
Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia. USA
DSA ID 7680A17E: 7E88 F9EC 0799 3260 49DA DB77 0327 D32B 7680 A17E
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