Hello, I am having an issue where I am migrating lists/archives/data from one machine to another machine. The machine I am migrating from is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 machine running mailman 2.1.6b4. Mailman was built from source code. The machine I am migrating to is a Red Hat Linux 5 machine running mailman 2.1.9. I am using the mailman version from the RHEL 5 DVDs. I set up a test list server on the machine (where eventually would become the production list server) and added a DNS A record for test.list.odu.edu for the machine it is running on. I used the following document (even though it was for Debian it appears to work for other flavors of Linux) for my information for migrating the lists/archives/data:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/567 I was successful in testing mailman on the machine. One change I needed to make was the URL (because the lists contained list.odu.edu), so I ran: ./withlist -l -r fix_url LIST_NAME -u test.list.odu.edu to update the URL for each list. On Sunday, I attempted to change the test list server to a production list server, so prior to migrating the lists/archives/data, I removed all files those directories. Also, prior to starting mailman and sendmail, I made changes to mm_cfg.py (when I set up the test listserve) from: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = '.test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'test.list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://test.list.odu.edu/' to: DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'list.odu.edu' DEFAULT_URL = 'http://list.odu.edu/' I also made sure the sendmail.cf file on the new machine had: C{mailman} list.odu.edu When I started sendmail and mailman, I started to see a lot of messages in /var/spool/mqueue. The sendmail (qf) queue files had these lines: ... H??MIME-Version: 1.0 H??Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" H??Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H??Subject: test.list.odu.edu mailing list memberships reminder H??From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] H??To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] H??X-No-Archive: yes H??Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H??Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:00:28 -0500 H??Precedence: bulk H??X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] H??X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 H??List-Id: Mailman site list <mailman.test.list.odu.edu> ... So, it appears that mailman was trying to send out password reminders even though it should not have run. The system is configured to execute the monthly password reminders only on the first on the month. Since the day of the install was Sunday, Feb. 3rd, it should not have run. Also, to make it more interesting, there are references to "Subject: test.list.odu.edu mailing list memberships reminder" when there should not have been. I searched the entire file system for test.list.odu.edu but could not find where it was configured. I even ran `strings' on the binaries but could not find it. My questions are: 1) Why did mailman send out the password reminders, when they shouldn't have? As a FYI, I did not add a mailman crontab as the mailman crontab on Red Hat runs out of /etc/cron.d. 2) Why did the messages contain any reference to test.list.odu.edu? Where could this information be define? You answers are appreciated. Darren Old Dominion University ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
