[Mailman-Users] sudden "group mismatch error"

[Ben Byrne]

So I idiotically decided to go ahead and do this without making backups 
of the lists (mostly because I wasn't sure of the best way to do that 
short of manually dumping each list with list_members).

It solved my problem (once I figured out I had to run "mailmanctl stop" 
before redoing the install). All lists appear to be intact.

Sorry to inconvenience anyone with what I now know was "the most common 
and frequest question asked on the Mailman support lists."

Ben

On Sep 2, 2004, at 4:35pm, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 3:49 PM -0400 2004-09-02, Ben Byrne wrote:
>
>>  Thanks. Fortunately I'm running a version of OS X server that 
>> predates
>>  Apple's inclusion of mailman, and I believe I've found the source
>>  directory used for the installation (I did not perform the install).
>
> 	Whew!  Then you can ignore everything I said about running Mailman on 
> MacOS X Server.  Thankfully.
>
>>  I have a stupid but quick question: will running
>>
>>  #make clean,
>>  #configure --with-mail-gid=daemon
>>  #make install
>>
>>  erase my existing lists, or will they be left untouched? If the 
>> former,
>>  is there a convenient way to backup and re-create the lists 
>> post-install?
>
> 	I think this should be safe, but I'd want a backup of all the mailing 
> lists, etc... just in case.  It shouldn't go randomly deleting 
> anything in $MAILMAN_HOME/* unless it's updating a given binary from 
> what it has just built, but I don't feel that you can never be 100% 
> certain.
>
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>
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