>If you look at the overall archive TOC for a list, you will see entries >like > >May 2010: [ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ] [ Text xx KB ] >April 2010:[ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ] [ Gzip'd Text xx KB ] I am not sure how to look at the TOC. I didn't see it in either of the lists that I have. Is it just a matter of physically looking at a specific file in the list directory?
>The [ Gzip'd Text xx KB ] link is to the 2010-April.txt.gz file if >there is one. I don't have any .gz files. I have another question. What is the difference between the following two directories: ...archives/private/<listname>/2009-December ...archives/private/<listname>/2009-December.txt and ...archives/private/mailman/2009-December ...archives/private/mailman/2009-December.txt The ...archives/private/mailman/ is much larger than the ...archives/private/<listname>/ directory; but they seem to contain the same files. Thank you, PATI M. From: Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> To: Patricia A Moss/GIS/c...@csc, mailman-users@python.org Date: 05/21/2010 11:05 AM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Understanding Archiving Patricia A Moss wrote: >I am running mailman, version 2.1.5.1-34, on a RedHat, version 4.0, >server. >I am trying to understand how archiving works and/or is set up and >configured. >I need to understand the difference between the directory and the .txt >file (i.e. Directory: "2009-December" and File: "2009-December.txt") >located within my .../archives/private/mailman/ subdirectory. >My partition, that houses the archives, is running out of space. I am >trying to figure out what, if anything, I can clean up while I wait for >approval for my new server. >Can someone please assist. I have been searching the threads on the >mailing list but can not seem to find the answer I seek. Thanks, in >advance. If you look at the overall archive TOC for a list, you will see entries like May 2010: [ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ] [ Text xx KB ] April 2010:[ Thread ][ Subject ][ Author ][ Date ] [ Gzip'd Text xx KB ] In the above, the [ Text xx KB ] link is to the 2010-May.txt file which is a mailbox like file containing that month's messages. It is not the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox cumulative mailbox which contains all list posts and which can be used to rebuild everything in the archives/private/LISTNAME directory. The [ Gzip'd Text xx KB ] link is to the 2010-April.txt.gz file if there is one. The actual pipermail archive with the thread, subject, author and date indices and all the nnnnnn.html message files, etc. is in the various yyyy-Month/ directories. If you are short on space, I recommend the following. Comment out or remove from Mailman's crontab the cron/nightly_gzip entry that makes the .txt.gz files, and make sure you do NOT have GZIP_ARCHIVE_TXT_FILES = Yes in mm_cfg.py. Then you can remove all the .txt.gz files. They just take extra space because the corresponding .txt files are there anyway. They may save a little bandwidth, but it's insignificant. If the archives/private/LISTNAME/attachments directory is large, consider rebuilding the entire archive with bin/arch --wipe, although it is a good idea to first check the LISTNAME.mbox file with bin/cleanarch, and it is possible that this may result in archived messages being renumbered, thus invalidating any saved archive URLs. This may not happen, but if it is a concern, backup and test. Rebuilding the archive may help because in the case of digestable lists, each 'attachment' is scrubbed and stored twice, once when the message is archived and once when the plain digest is produced. For a temporary situation, you can remove anything other than the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox file, and reconstruct the archive later with bin/arch --wipe. -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org