I am migrating mailman from server_old (RHEL 4) to server_new (RHEL 5). Its basically in all sense the same machine / arch / domain / blah blah blah.
I am using this archive as a guide: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2007-January/055208.html I copies everything over from my old server to the new as below: /usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after /var/lib/mailman/lists/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/lists /usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private I skipped step 3 in the guide since the domain is identical and has no reason to change... I then copied all /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/*mbox/*mbox to the new server as shown below: /usr/bin/rsync -ave ssh --delete-after /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/mailman/archives/private Now I am trying to understand step # 5 and I don't understand since my system has no user or group called list so I can chown -R list:list. Am I missing something? Right now since I can't execute step 5, when I attempt to start mailman on my Linux server, I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cwilliams]# /etc/init.d/mailman start Starting mailman: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 607, in ? main() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 426, in main check_for_site_list() File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl", line 326, in check_for_site_list sitelist = MailList(sitelistname, lock=0) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 130, in __init__ self.Load() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 665, in Load self.CheckVersion(dict) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 707, in CheckVersion self.InitVars() File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 404, in InitVars baseclass.InitVars(self) File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 96, in InitVars os.mkdir(self.archive_dir()+'.mbox', 02775) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox' [FAILED] Anyone know what I am missing or doing wrong? ------------------------------------------------------ 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
