Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-07 Thread Ian A B Eiloart
--On Saturday, June 5, 2004 6:41 pm -0400 Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . I've clarified that first paragraph in the UPGRADING file, although because of SF CVS unavailability at the moment, I can't check in the change. Here's what it now reads: For the most part, upgrading

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 17:31, Brad Knowles wrote: At 6:45 PM +0100 2004/06/01, Ian A B Eiloart wrote: Ah, I see, so I upgrade by reinstalling. But that isn't clear from the documentation, because as easy as doesn't mean is achieved by. So there's me thinking, OK, so its easy, but how do

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-03 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/1/2004 14:36, Tokio Kikuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMTP is so designed that one MTA can stop for a day or more ;-) The school districts around here have the (energy saving but quaint) habit of shutting off their SMTP servers either over weekends or just over long weekends. The rest of

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-02 Thread Ian A B Eiloart
--On Wednesday, June 2, 2004 6:36 am +0900 Tokio Kikuchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 1. The file says BE SURE TO TURN OFF MAILMAN AS DESCRIBED ABOVE BEFORE YOU UPGRADE. - but that isn't described above. The closest I could see was a recommendation to switch off my MTA. I want to avoid that

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-02 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
for 2.1.3 - 2.1.5 upgrade, you can safely stop qrunners if you don't like to stop MTA. So, the fact that messages will be queued in the old format during the upgrade doesn't matter? Or, are they not queued in the old format? My bet is that bin/update program which is executed at the end of

[Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Ian A B Eiloart
Hi, How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5? I know this question was asked last month, but I'm afraid I didn't understand the answer. I'm using the source download on Solaris (presumably, if I had a package it would be easier, and it would include specific documentation, but I don't). Oh, and I did

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:44 PM +0100 2004/06/01, Ian A B Eiloart wrote: Now, one message said to check the UPDATES file. I have, but as far as I can see, it doesn't actually say what to do to update. It does give some advice about shutting down the MTA and the web site, and some other tips about what to do

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:16 PM +0200 2004/06/01, Brad Knowles wrote: What about this is not clear? You turn off the MTA and the web server, and then you follow the instructions for installing the software. That's about it. Further clarification -- a bit further down that same file, it says: UPGRADING

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Ian A B Eiloart
--On Tuesday, June 1, 2004 7:16 pm +0200 Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 5:44 PM +0100 2004/06/01, Ian A B Eiloart wrote: Now, one message said to check the UPDATES file. I have, but as far as I can see, it doesn't actually say what to do to update. It does give some advice about

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Tokio Kikuchi
Hi, 1. The file says BE SURE TO TURN OFF MAILMAN AS DESCRIBED ABOVE BEFORE YOU UPGRADE. - but that isn't described above. The closest I could see was a recommendation to switch off my MTA. I want to avoid that if the process is going to take more than a minute, so I'm hoping I can just

Re: [Mailman-Users] How can I update 2.1.3 -- 2.1.5?

2004-06-01 Thread Brad Knowles
At 6:45 PM +0100 2004/06/01, Ian A B Eiloart wrote: Ah, I see, so I upgrade by reinstalling. But that isn't clear from the documentation, because as easy as doesn't mean is achieved by. So there's me thinking, OK, so its easy, but how do I do it?. Fair enough. We'll have to ask Barry to