Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carlos Williams wrote: I have no idea what happened to my mailman installation. As far as I can tell from a very basic administrative and user level, it works perfect with my Postifx install. Only only noticed this was a problem when I started to migrate my mailman data to a new email server I am

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone else reported a similar symptom a month or two ago. (I just tried to find this in the archive, and I see it was you, not someone else.) Yes - I reported this during my migration help email. It was me... I have no

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Mark Sapiro writes: I have no idea how this happened. I suspect somehow instead of mailman.mbox/mailman.mbox being a file, it somehow became a link back to its parent. If this is the case, even rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/mailman.mbox may not succeed because it may loop

Re: [Mailman-Users] Deleting Mailman Mbox

2008-07-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carlos Williams wrote: So I think I am simply going to just rm -rf /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox/mailman.box This will retain the first mailman.box directory which is expected to be there and then remove everything beyond that. I will then assume at some point Mailman will