[Mailman-Users] mailman not archiving

[Anne Hammond]

Since 
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
(thanks for the correction)
contains only the 11 messages from the 2006-December archive, what
will happen to all these dirs from
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users:



drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2003-August
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    7134 Sep 16 07:46 2003-August.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    2687 Sep 16 07:46 2003-August.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2003-December
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman   13200 Sep 16 07:46 2003-December.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    3794 Sep 16 07:46 2003-December.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2003-November
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman 1526919 Sep 16 07:46 2003-November.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman   32114 Sep 16 07:46 2003-November.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2003-September
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    5292 Sep 16 07:46 2003-September.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    2826 Sep 16 07:46 2003-September.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2004-April
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    2122 Sep 16 07:46 2004-April.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    1066 Sep 16 07:46 2004-April.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2004-August
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman   54522 Sep 16 07:46 2004-August.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman   11181 Sep 16 07:46 2004-August.txt.gz
drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman    4096 Sep 16 07:46 2004-December
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman   13793 Sep 16 07:46 2004-December.txt
-rw-rw-r--    1 mailman mailman    2590 Sep 16 07:46 2004-December.txt.gz
.....


Anne M. Hammond - Systems / Network Administration - Tech-X Corp
                   hammond_at_txcorp.com 720-974-1840

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Anne Hammond wrote:
>
>> The two messages are in
>> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox.
>
>
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox or
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox?
>
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox should be a
> directory that contains the
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
> file.
>
> Assuming that's what you meant, that means that archiving to
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
> is working, but pipermail archiving is not.
>
>
>> Now here is the problem.  I thought this list was created today, but
>> it turns out that it was created  9.May.2006.  There are 9 messages
>> in vorpal-users.mbox that were there before, with the 2 from today
>> at the end.
>>
>> The 9 earlier messages are not in the archives.  They don't need
>> to be.
>
>
> I'm guessing that the 9 messages were in the pipermail archive but were
> lost when you moved over the other archive.
>
>
>> Can I hand edit this file and maybe run a cleanarch?
>
>
> Here's my suggestion.
>
> Get the archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox file from
> the other machine and append either the two or the eleven messages to
> it so you have one
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
> file with all the messages you want archived.
>
> Run bin/cleanarch with the '-n' option and the overall .mbox as input.
> If it gives any "Unix-From line changed:" messages, then move the
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
> file and rerun bin/cleanarch without '-n' to create a 'cleaned'
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/vorpal-users.mbox/vorpal-users.mbox
> file.
>
> Then run 'bin/arch --wipe vorpal-users' to remove and rebuild the
> pipermail archive.
>
> See
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.003.htp>
> for more info about this. Be aware, that it's possible that the
> bin/arch --wipe will cause messages to be assigned different numbers
> in the archive, thus invalidating saved URLs pointing to archived
> messages, but I gather that at least the host portion of the URL
> changed anyway.
>
> Once you have rebuilt the archive in this way, it should work from now
> on.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>