[Mailman-Users] ghost in the admin db?

[Jon Carnes]

Only valid for v2.0.8 actually, as we always assume that users have upgraded
to the latest stable version.

I imagine that there will be a bit of parallelism going on during the
transition to v2.1.0, but folks will be encouraged to do any new work on
v2.1.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Boudreau" <mboudreau at press.uchicago.edu>
To: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at haht.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] ghost in the admin db?


> Could these be features of Mailman 2.0? There are no request.db files in
> any of our list directories.
>
> The ~/mailman/data/ directory has
>
>     adm.pw
>     pending_subscriptions.db
>
> and a bunch of files with names like "mm_q.11445.1".
>
> I have found an FAQ entry "1.12. How do I automatically delete held
> messages?" which refers to these request.db files too, but I can't find
any
> on our system (we have over a dozen lists in a mailman 1.1 installation).
> Perhaps the FAQ is accurate only for version 2.0...although I don't see
any
> notice to this effect.
>
>
> At 3/20/02 12:23 PM, Jon Carnes wrote:
> >The database in question is ~mailman/lists/<list_name>/request.db
> >There is no identifying data in request.db, so you can copy another
list's
> >request.db (one that has no waiting request) over top of that list's
> >request.db.
> >
> >Just to be thorough, you should look in ~mailman/data/... and see if
their
> >are any messages for the offending list hanging about.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Michael Boudreau" <mboudreau at press.uchicago.edu>
> >To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:26 AM
> >Subject: [Mailman-Users] ghost in the admin db?
> >
> >
> > > One of our lists (still running on mailman 1.1) is sending a notice
every
> > > morning about a pending post needing approval.
> > >
> > > When I go to the pending administrative requests page, the page says
> > > "Database updated", but I haven't done anything. Checking the page
later
> > > shows no pending requests. But then the email shows up again the next
> >morning.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to forcibly clear out (delete some file?) the admin
> >database
> > > for an existing list?
> > >
> > >
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>
> =================================================
> Michael Boudreau
> Senior Electronic Publishing Developer
> The University of Chicago Press
> 1427 E. 60th Street
> Chicago, IL 60637-2954
>
> phone: 773 753 3298
> fax: 773 753 3383
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