Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-09 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 07:17 AM 1/9/2008, you wrote: ??? Are you mixing in your replies with the quoted text here without distinuguishing the quoted text? That is VERY confusing, and will get your posts bit-canned by a lot of people, just fyi... That's odd. The text

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-09 Thread Brad Knowles
Check the archives. HTML gets flattened to plain text and any fancy HTML stuff you've got goes away. -- Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from my iPhone On Jan 9, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Dennis Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 07:17 AM

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-08 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 08:17 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: This is a group mismatch error and will prevent any mail from reaching Mailman. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp . I'm guessing that this is Postfix. I would say, if that is the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: At 08:09 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: I am confused. At least I'm not alone. :-) Your original post said Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get Mailman to see the lists again? Correct. Now you say bin/list_lists shows your lists.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: At 08:17 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: This is a group mismatch error and will prevent any mail from reaching Mailman. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showfile=faq06.016.htp . I'm guessing that this is Postfix. I would say, if that is the case, to make the owner

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 02:32 PM 1/5/2008, you wrote: Look in Defaults.py for things like PREFIX, EXEC_PREFIX and VAR_PREFIX, and then for things defined in terms of these such as LIST_DATA_DIR, LOG_DIR, etc. Then look in mm_cfg.py for possible overrides. - -- Mark

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Brad Knowles
On 1/7/08, Dennis Putnam wrote: I knew it wasn't going to be that easy. Everything you mentioned seems copacetic. I guess the next question is, can I set some kind of debug that will give me some useful information in the logs? There is no debug mode with Mailman. What you get in the logs

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks again. Please see the embedded responses. At 07:10 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: What does Mailman's bin/list_lists show? It shows my lists correctly. What exactly is in mm_cfg.py and Defaults.py for VAR_PREFIX and LIST_DATA_DIR. Note that if

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just discovered something that may or may not be useful. Just for grins I tried sending a request to the request mail box. I saw some errors in the syslog but the main one is that there is a group error. The mailman wrapper expected to be run as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: At 07:10 PM 1/7/2008, you wrote: What does Mailman's bin/list_lists show? It shows my lists correctly. I am confused. Your original post said Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get Mailman to see the lists again? Now you say

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: I just discovered something that may or may not be useful. Just for grins I tried sending a request to the request mail box. I saw some errors in the syslog but the main one is that there is a group error. The mailman wrapper expected to be run as group 'mail' but ran as

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-05 Thread Mark Sapiro
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:01:41PM -0500, Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply. I do indeed see .pck files. They are in /var/lib/mailman/lists/listname. It has always bothered me that Mandriva, for whatever reason, did not follow the mailman standard directories. My question now is how

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-04 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:42 PM 1/2/2008, you wrote: Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply but the only pickles I know of are made from cucumbers and vinegar. :-) What file name or type should I be looking for? lists/listname/config.pck - -- Mark Sapiro

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-02 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:03 PM 1/1/2008, you wrote: On 1/1/08, Dennis Putnam wrote: You're missing the Python pickles which define which list(s) exist and what its/their configuration(s) is/are. Those should presumably be somewhere under /var/*/mailman/*, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Sapiro
Dennis Putnam wrote: Thanks for the reply but the only pickles I know of are made from cucumbers and vinegar. :-) What file name or type should I be looking for? lists/listname/config.pck -- Mark Sapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2007-12-31 Thread Dennis Putnam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a disk failure and had to restore my Mandriva system from backup. Everything seems to work except Mailman. Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get Mailman to see the lists again? TIA. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Lists

2007-12-31 Thread Brad Knowles
On 12/31/07, Dennis Putnam wrote: I had a disk failure and had to restore my Mandriva system from backup. Everything seems to work except Mailman. Well, mailman works but it does not recognize any of my old lists. How do I get Mailman to see the lists again? TIA. Assuming you had your

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring lists on newer version

2007-12-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ivan Van Laningham wrote: QMAIL QUESTION, not Mailman: Now my big problem is that my qmail is configured with default, very conservative, settings. When I initially set the server up back in March, I ran across a page on the net showing how to increase the limits and queue sizes (?) to speed

[Mailman-Users] Restoring lists on newer version

2007-11-26 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- My server suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure. I have backups (unfortunately, two weeks old, but that's better than nothing), but when the server was restored I was forced to upgrade to Fedora 6 (from 4) and to Mailman 2.1.9, where it used to be 2.1.5 (I think). I also have

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring lists on newer version

2007-11-26 Thread Mark Sapiro
Ivan Van Laningham wrote: What's the best procedure to restore my lists? I've got a dozen, but only three have significant traffic. Do I copy the backups to the proper location and then make the lists with Plesk, or do I make the lists first and then copy the data in? Neither. You just

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring lists on newer version

2007-11-26 Thread Ivan Van Laningham
Hi All-- (Comments interpolated; new question at end.) Mark Sapiro wrote: Ivan Van Laningham wrote: What's the best procedure to restore my lists? I've got a dozen, but only three have significant traffic. Do I copy the backups to the proper location and then make the lists with Plesk, or

[Mailman-Users] Restoring lists?

2005-06-27 Thread John Athayde
I had to archive an old mailman install and reformat a box, and I'm now wondering how to restore the old lists. I've not been able to locate anything so far via google. It's FreeBSD 5.4-Release with Mailman 2.15. I had seen the move_list command in the documentation, but it isn't in the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring lists?

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
John Athayde wrote: I had to archive an old mailman install and reformat a box, and I'm now wondering how to restore the old lists. I've not been able to locate anything so far via google. See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-June/045255.html The context is different, but