On 8/23/2012 5:29 AM, Steff Watkins wrote: > > So I had an idea. What if I make a directory, /usr/local/mailman-data > for instance and then symlink the data, lists and archive directories > from the current active mailman directories back into this separated > data directory. I've been running with this setup for a few days now > and it seems to be working just fine, no complaints from users or > systems. I'm also thinking that it is likely to make upgrades require > less downtime as the new version can be built and linked into the > current list data and then rolled over. OK, maybe not if there a file > format conversion needed but in general yes.
I think there may be a better way to to this. When you run configure, specify --prefix= and --with-var-prefix= to be separate directories, e.g. --prefix=/usr/local/mailman-2.x.x --with-var-prefix=/usr/local/mailman-data. This will put the archives, data, lists, locks, logs, qfiles and spam directories in /usr/local/mailman-data and the Mailman, bin, cgi-bin, cron, icons, mail, messages, pythonlib, scripts, templates and tests directories in /usr/local/mailman-2.x.x. If you do this consistently, you will have only one set of mutable data in /usr/local/mailman-data and any particular version's immutable code in its own /usr/local/mailman-2.x.x directory. Then, running '/usr/local/mailman-2.x.x/bin/mailmanctl start' will start that version and all versions will use the same data. There could be issues with file conversions, but the only such things in the last 10+ releases on the 2.1 branch have been backward compatible and are likely to remain so. -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
