If you are running two separate systems then you don't want to copy the follow directories under ~mailman/: data - where moderated messages are held locks - where the locking files are created logs - the local logs for the running Mailman system qfiles - queued up messages waiting to go out
The files in each of those directories will be used specifically for messages that are being processed by the local Mailman system. You'll need a local web-site for each install so the moderated messages can be handled. To make things simpler, you could limit users (and admins) to modify the list databases on only one of the two (or more) servers You could could point all website directions to that one server (and only one of the servers) and you could direct the <listname>-request emails to that same server, and then let both servers field mail to the lists. Then you would simply have to do a one-way sync of the ~mailman/lists directory from that one server out to your mirrors. If you wanted the archives as well, then you would have to sync the ~mailman/archives directory as well. Take care - Jon Carnes On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:31, David Richards wrote: > Not so much of performance that will be a problem, but more of a > availability issue. Yes, would be fun to try... > > How about Ian's original idea, about keeping certain directories in sync?? > Which directories would that have to be, and can a straight 'cp -R' acheive > the syncing?? > > Dave. > > > > I would worry about locking on the databases. Mailman handles > > this via a lock file in a common directory, so it should work > > even in active-active, but you would still only have one mailman > > process able to run on a list at one time. In other words, I > > don't think you would get much better performance out of the dual > > system since only one at time would have access to the list > > databases. > > It would be fun to try it out! > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 00:17, David Richards wrote: > > > How about ACTIVE-ACTIVE sharing the same installation via an > > NFS mount (or > possibly shared storage in a cluster)? > > > > > > D. > > > > > > > > > Dave Richards > Project Manager (Messaging) > Information Technology Services > Queensland University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
