[Mailman-Users] changing DEFAULT_HOST_NAME after creating lists

John P. Looney valen at tuatha.org
Thu Aug 29 10:13:20 CEST 2002


On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 01:08:09PM -0500, David F. Reed mentioned:
> There is a place in the overall configuration (one of the .py scripts)
> that you can change the entry of all of them...
> 
> On a RedHat 7.3 system, it is /var/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
> On other systems, I would think a locate mailman|grep mm_cfg.py
> would find it..
> 
> Edit variable DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = <new host name>
> 
> 
> Good luck; if you have a moent for it,
> I am curious how you moved all the lists, archives, etc.

 The problem is that this variable is only accessed when the list is
created - so for all new lists, the DEFAULT_HOST_NAME will be correct.

 In the end, I just went to the web page of all sixty lists, and changed
them manually.

John





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