Hello,
I'm a "bit" in a loss here: I was running Mailman 2.1.2 on Debian 3.0 with no problems. Using apt-get... to upgrade Mailman to 2.1.4 produced an error. Well, besides the fact that all my archives got deleted (why would a script (!) do that??), I finally got Mailman back up and running version 2.1.4. I had to fix a zillion permissions, and it took me forever. Probably not a Mailman-thing, I know, and the package-maintainer isn't my friend, I can tell you that. But the following should be only Mailman-related: After having fixed the web_page issue I could even access my lists. All of them. But then the disaster: I have lost some 3.500 subscribers in 3 different lists. Many other lists have been untouched, at least no loss there. I do not understand why only those 3 were affected any why anything got lost there in the first place. The status is, that I have a config.pck that is way smaller than my old ones in backup (e.g. 163 KB versus 533 KB). I'm missing _a lot_ of subscribers (plus of course the fact that now there are probably people in the list again that had unsubscribed!) and I can't recover. Why? Well, I thought that backing up /lists would be sufficient since all relevant data is in those files. Apparently not!? When I copy my old config.pck to the directory, overwriting the current (new) file (permissions set to list:list, 0660), then that file gets stripped in size when I save and/or start qrunner again. And of course the memberlist is still the old, small one, and interestingly enough, the settings (web_page_url e.g.) are lost even though that file should have the settings in it as they were obviously correct before. I do have config.pck.tmp.XXX-files which I tried to rename to config.pck. Again, it gets stripped down and only has a totally outdated number of subscribers. Why would that happen? What else could I do to recover those thousands of lost subscribers? Where _exactly_ are those addresses actually stored? Any why doesn't this seem to be documented somewhere? I really searched pretty much everywhere. Barry in http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2002-August/012795.html didn't really help me. I really would appreciate any help I can get. My lists are not for fun and we need them. I still don't understand why the backup doesn't help. But maybe I'm simply missing something. Thank you very much, a very desperate Alex ------------------------------------------------------ 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/
