Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble [SEMI-SOLVED]
kashani wrote: Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh installation of mailman? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641573-highlight-.html There are a couple twists. You'll need to update the mailman user to point to the right homedir, make sure your lists are in the right place, etc. kashani Reading through the different links and forum threads posted here I decided to revert to a working version of mailman: I edited /etc/portage/package.mask and added the following line: >net-mail/mailman-2.1.9 and then I ran: emerge -vauDN world Everything seems to be working again now, so I'm just crossing my fingers and waiting for a new ebuild that handles the upgrade smoother. -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen /You live and learn. At any rate, you live. [Marvin]/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh installation of mailman? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641573-highlight-.html There are a couple twists. You'll need to update the mailman user to point to the right homedir, make sure your lists are in the right place, etc. kashani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble
>For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a >upgrade but I'm not sure. The mailman update this week [2.1.9-r3] broke things horrendously. In short, things moved from /usr/local/mailman to /usr/mailman and /var/mailman but there wasn't a single release note about it. The solution is documented here: http://the-hug.org/opus379.html Note that the procedure documented there does not include fixing cron; you'll need to fix paths in the mailman crontab. Be very careful to note the difference between /var and /usr in the new mailman paths. Good luck, Ed -- Ed Santiago Toolsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:04:59 +0100 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > Hi > > For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a > upgrade but I'm not sure. > > I can't seem to start or stop mailman... > > # /etc/init.d/mailman stop > * Stopping mailman > ... > > > [ !! ] > # /etc/init.d/mailman start > * WARNING: mailman has already been started. > > I tried to start mailman manually with '/usr/lib/mailman/mailmanctl > start' but got this error: > > Site list is missing: mailman > > Then I ask mailman to display my lists with '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/ > list_lists' which gave me this response: > > No matching mailing lists found > > which is somewhat odd as I checked that the lists was located where > they have been the whole time at '/usr/local/mailman/lists/' which > was the case. > > I have tried to kill all mailman processes but without any luck in > regards to starting the service again. > > My best bet is that I have missed some crucial change when accepted > changes to a conf file after an upgrade using dispatch-conf, but I > have no idea which. > > Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? > > Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh > installation of mailman? A couple of thoughts: Perhaps an upgrade now has mailman looking in /usr/mailman/lists rather than /usr/local/mailman/lists I often run "strace -feopen program ..." to determine what files 'program' is opening (or attempting to open). Doing that can help find out where mailman is looking for its lists. Lastly, configuration files are so important that I save copies of working versions. When something breaks, at least I can compare the b0rked versions to working versions. Any version control system (rcs, csv, subversion, ...) would work for this. HTH, David -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Hi For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a upgrade but I'm not sure. I can't seem to start or stop mailman... # /etc/init.d/mailman stop * Stopping mailman ... [ !! ] # /etc/init.d/mailman start * WARNING: mailman has already been started. I tried to start mailman manually with '/usr/lib/mailman/mailmanctl start' but got this error: Site list is missing: mailman Then I ask mailman to display my lists with '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/ list_lists' which gave me this response: No matching mailing lists found which is somewhat odd as I checked that the lists was located where they have been the whole time at '/usr/local/mailman/lists/' which was the case. I have tried to kill all mailman processes but without any luck in regards to starting the service again. My best bet is that I have missed some crucial change when accepted changes to a conf file after an upgrade using dispatch-conf, but I have no idea which. Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh installation of mailman? I'm not sure about mailman but this is how I handle a service that is giving me fits. /etc/init.d/ stop. Then I use ps aux and make sure there are no living processes still there and kill them if needed. Then I do a /etc/init.d/ zap then do a /etc/init.d/ start. Cross all fingers at that point. I'm not sure if it will help or not but until some mailman guru comes along, it may be worth thinking about trying. YMMV. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Mailman trouble
Hi For some reason my mailman has stopped responding... probably after a upgrade but I'm not sure. I can't seem to start or stop mailman... # /etc/init.d/mailman stop * Stopping mailman ... [ !! ] # /etc/init.d/mailman start * WARNING: mailman has already been started. I tried to start mailman manually with '/usr/lib/mailman/mailmanctl start' but got this error: Site list is missing: mailman Then I ask mailman to display my lists with '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/ list_lists' which gave me this response: No matching mailing lists found which is somewhat odd as I checked that the lists was located where they have been the whole time at '/usr/local/mailman/lists/' which was the case. I have tried to kill all mailman processes but without any luck in regards to starting the service again. My best bet is that I have missed some crucial change when accepted changes to a conf file after an upgrade using dispatch-conf, but I have no idea which. Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh installation of mailman? -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen /You live and learn. At any rate, you live. [Marvin]/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
