[Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman

[Fong, Anna]

Adam,

Try this thread:  

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg11052.html


Hope this helps,
Anna


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Anna Q. Fong, Webmaster	
California Data Exchange Center	

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mailman-users-admin at python.org [SMTP:mailman-users-admin at python.org] On Behalf Of Adam Brons
> Sent:	Thursday, August 15, 2002 6:36 AM
> To:	mailman-users at python.org
> Subject:	[Mailman-Users] Moving mailman to new server and upgrading mailman
> 
> I'm looking for some advice, here's the situation:
> 
> I have mailman 1.x installed on server 'A'.  We're upgrading mailman to
> 2.x but we're also moving it to server 'B'.  On server 'A' the install
> directory for mailman is /usr0/mailman.  On server 'B' the install
> directory for mailman is going to be /usr1/mailman.  
> 
> Symlinking /usr0/mailman to /usr1/mailman on server 'B' is NOT an option.
> 
> Would it be easier to just do a fresh install of mailman 2.x on server 'B'
> and manually migrate the lists from the old server following the steps in
> "UPGRADING" and fixing whatever else may arise.  Or should I copy the
> installation on server 'A' to server 'B' go through and make all the
> changes where the path is wrong and then do a make install of mailman 2.x
> on top of mailman 1.x?  Or is there some much easier way to do this?  
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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> Adam Brons           Systems Engineer / Unix Support Group
>                      Office of Computing and Communications Services
>                      Old Dominion University - Norfolk, Virginia. USA
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