It solved my problem (once I figured out I had to run "mailmanctl stop" before redoing the install). All lists appear to be intact.
Sorry to inconvenience anyone with what I now know was "the most common and frequest question asked on the Mailman support lists."
Ben
On Sep 2, 2004, at 4:35pm, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 3:49 PM -0400 2004-09-02, Ben Byrne wrote:
Thanks. Fortunately I'm running a version of OS X server that predates
Apple's inclusion of mailman, and I believe I've found the source
directory used for the installation (I did not perform the install).
Whew! Then you can ignore everything I said about running Mailman on MacOS X Server. Thankfully.
I have a stupid but quick question: will running
#make clean, #configure --with-mail-gid=daemon #make install
erase my existing lists, or will they be left untouched? If the former,
is there a convenient way to backup and re-create the lists post-install?
I think this should be safe, but I'd want a backup of all the mailing lists, etc... just in case. It shouldn't go randomly deleting anything in $MAILMAN_HOME/* unless it's updating a given binary from what it has just built, but I don't feel that you can never be 100% certain.
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