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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT) > Aaron D Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It seems all the config.db's (and their .last's) for all my lists > > are now corrupt. At least check_db says so. Since there doesn't > > seem to be anyway to fix this, perhaps there is a way to extract > > the email addresses/passwords for the lists so I can recover? > > I'd be far more worried about finding out how and why. You have > serious data corruption on your hands. Hunt that down first. I'm guessing it has to do with the upgrade I just did. It seems to be mailman related as these seem to be the only corrupted files on the system that I can tell. > config.db files are streamed python objects. If you can't load them > under python (which you should be able to) then something is Badly > Wrong. Well I know nothing about that or Python. > About your only recourse at that point is trying to run > strings against them. Heh, forgot about strings. Yeah, that worked nicely. No way to recover the passwords, but hey, at least I have my subscriber list again. - -- Aaron Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]|synfin.net|linuxkb.org> URI:www.synfin.net They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin pub 1024D/F86EDAE6 Sig: 3167 CCD6 6081 0FFC B749 9A8F 8707 9817 F86E DAE6 All emails by me are PGP signed; a lack of a signature indicates a forgery. I have retired my PGP 2.6.2 key: FBE1 CEED 57E4 AB80 596E 60BF 451B 20E8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at: http://www.synfin.net/aturner/pgpkey.asc iEYEARECAAYFAju6LGUACgkQhweYF/hu2uZLYACfVHM4jLB5wOMVe6wBsInzD8ua i9wAn2OaCsLw0rLRBsX2zmQqWjuNHb/w =Y46c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
