[Mailman-Users] My old mailing list is not working after installation on a new distro.

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Daniel Einspanjer wrote:

> I tried that, but the move_list program hangs as well.  I can only assume it is reading that bad directory and failing?
> I'm going to try to create a symlinked structure and see if it can run then.  Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Synlinks have nothing to do with it as it does not try to read the old (bad) directory.  If your lists are large, it will sit there for a while.  Check your lists first, make sure they're okay:

    bin/check_db <list>

    then run the move

    bin/move_list <list>

    AMK4

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