[Mailman-Users] admin and lockfile problems

[Philippe Rodriguez]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, josh koenig wrote:

>
> Yeah... I could see how this would work.

Nice !

> A sort of failsafe backup/migration system.

Yes.

> I think I can puzzle out how to get all the data
> out manually, but any such script you write would be more than welcome by
> me. I'm not experienced with python.
>
OK, I'll try to prepare them quickly, but I can't promise.
I really do not know python : I'm writing /bin/sh scripts.


Phil.

> > I have no scripts (yet) do to that, but my idea is :
> >
> >  - first step, on your old (and running) mailman installation :
> >     With some command in $prefix/bin, you can get the list of lists, and
> >      then you for each list you can get the list of subscribers (and their
> >      options ?)
> >  - second step, with the newly installed mailman :
> >     With some other commands in $prefix/bin, you can create the lists and
> >      subsscribe your list of subscribers.
> >
> > Sorry not to indicate which commands to use in $prefix/bin, but you'll
> >  find which one to use by using the option --help for each, to determine
> >  what you can do with them. That's what I did.
> >
> > I have tested the second step, to test the feasability of a migration
> >  from majordomo, but I have to clean up these scripts.
> >
> > Do you want me to send these scripts when they'll be ready ?
> >
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
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>
>
>
> Josh Koenig (joshk at grawk.net)
> Developer - Smarter than pudding
> http://www.grawk.net/~joshk/
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