Re: [Mailman-Users] Migration to new server, new domain name
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:33:11AM -0400, Duane Winner wrote: Hello, Can anybody point me to a document or explain to me what is necessary to complete these steps? I am in the same position and hope somebody can point to a link to a step by step tutorial or something like that. -- Zhengquan -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] migrating hundreds of lists to another host
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:43:06PM +0100, Adam McGreggor wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi mailman list, Since our list server is getting old and dying, I plan to migrate list service to another host. mailman is working with a postfix setup. the migration will be temporary and once I setup a new server for the list I will move the lists back. My question is, how Can I minimize list downtime and allow for users to use the lists without any feeling the service has been moved to another host? for example, the hostname is different for the temporary host and others? I am clueless asto how to do this. So, ideally, you want to get something quick and dirty working for a few hours, whilst you commission and build/do final config of a new server? Well, it is not a few hours, the old server still has other services running, so I will gradually migrate all services seemlessly to the temporary server and at the same time build a new server and get things back to the new server. Two (and an half) ideas spring to mind: (a) rsync the mailman mta configs over to $TEMPBOX, adjust Mailman default configs, fix-up URIs/mail addresses, set forwarding of Mailman addresses on $OLDMTA to $TEMPBOX, fix-up $HTTPD to proxy out Mailman stuff (vaguely) (b) Switch-off/disable (list)-mail on $OLDHOST, and rely on secondaries until $NEWHOST is ready... (c) Make your MTA just bounce back to listmembers, posting to your list addresses (listmembers, sort, uniq), saying something like Down for maint, try again in a couple of hours/check the status http://status.example.org pages. As I gather, $NEWHOST will be a replacement (with the same hostname, ip addy, services c) to $OLDHOST. There's a bit of effort (even scripted) in doing (a), and it'll need to be undone/reversed when you bring $NEWHOST up. I'm a lazy sysadmin, so would probably go down (b) route. I might shove something out for info, (c), but depends how pressed for time I was/how long the move/build would take. So it seems harder than I expected to really have the list services migrate to another host seamlessly. I will do more searching of the mailman-user archives. And I would have most of the new-machine built/config'd, so it would just be a case of downing, changing network settings, and bringing the new-machine up; should be 30mins; then however long to copy over Mailman's data/archives. Thanks for your help, -- Zhengquan -- 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
[Mailman-Users] migrating hundreds of lists to another host
Hi mailman list, Since our list server is getting old and dying, I plan to migrate list service to another host. mailman is working with a postfix setup. the migration will be temporary and once I setup a new server for the list I will move the lists back. My question is, how Can I minimize list downtime and allow for users to use the lists without any feeling the service has been moved to another host? for example, the hostname is different for the temporary host and others? I am clueless asto how to do this. Thanks for any pointers and enlightenments, -- Zhengquan -- 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
Re: [Mailman-Users] howto rebuild the html files from mbox?
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:42:53AM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: I just found that one list we manage has failed to generate the individual html file for the web archive since 2008, I did the check_perms yesterday and got it working again. the problem is the 2008 folder is still missing but fortunately we have the mbox file intact. -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 162M May 28 16:05 admin.mbox I checked and found all messages from 2008 and 2009 are in it. my question is how to regenerate the 2008 and 2009 folder and the txt files from the mbox file? bin/mailmanctl stop bin/arch --wipe admin bin/mailmanctl start See bin/arch --help and bin/cleanarch --help for more information. Thanks a lot Mark, -- Zhengquan -- 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
[Mailman-Users] howto rebuild the html files from mbox?
Hello mailman list, drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 84K Oct 20 2004 2002/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 451M Sep 30 2007 2002.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 28K Oct 20 2004 2003/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 11M Oct 20 2004 2003.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 44K Dec 30 2004 2004/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 4.1M Dec 30 2004 2004.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 8.0K Dec 21 2005 2005/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 421K Dec 21 2005 2005.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 4.0K Oct 31 2006 2006/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 68K Oct 31 2006 2006.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 apache mailman 4.0K Dec 29 2007 2007/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 35K Dec 29 2007 2007.txt drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 4.0K May 28 16:05 2009/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 mailman mailman 2.1K May 28 16:05 2009.txt drwxrwsr-x 307 apache mailman 8.0K May 27 14:22 attachments/ drwxrws--- 2 apache mailman 4.0K May 28 16:05 database/ -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache mailman 4.9K May 28 16:05 index.html -rw-rw 1 apache mailman 936 May 28 16:05 pipermail.pck I just found that one list we manage has failed to generate the individual html file for the web archive since 2008, I did the check_perms yesterday and got it working again. the problem is the 2008 folder is still missing but fortunately we have the mbox file intact. -rw-rw-r-- 1 apache mailman 162M May 28 16:05 admin.mbox I checked and found all messages from 2008 and 2009 are in it. my question is how to regenerate the 2008 and 2009 folder and the txt files from the mbox file? Thanks a lot, -- Zhengquan -- 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
