Barry Finkel wrote: > >I have a question about list archives. I have a list that I >converted from Majordomo to Mailman in July, 2007. I was helping >one of the list owners in managing the list, and I went to the list >archives. The web page has all of the combined archives that I copied >from Majordomo; they go back to May, 1996. When I went to the Mailman >file > > /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox > >that file contains only the last two postings - Jul 2007 and >Feb 2008.
So, apparently, you initialized the archive with bin/arch --wipe LISTNAME /path/to/majordomo_archive_mbox but you never added anything to /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox >How do I rebuild the > > LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox > >file? I have the collected mbox file from Majordomo, and I can easily >pre-pend it to the current LISTNAME.mbox file. Is that all I have to >do? Yes. Or No. The LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox file is maintained as a kind of backup and is only actually used if you rebuild the archive with bin/arch. The safest thing is to prepend the majordomo mbox to LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox. Then in the future, you could rebuild the entire archive with bin/arch --wipe LISTNAME The alternative is to not combine the two files and to remember that rebuilding the archive is a two step process bin/arch --wipe LISTNAME /path/to/majordomo_archive_mbox bin/arch LISTNAME to initialize the archive from majordomo_archive_mbox and then add the posts from the default LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox. I recommend the former so you don't need to remember the two step process. >Or do I need to run > > bin/arch --wipe Not at this time. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
