[Mailman-Users] trouble migrating a list

Peter pmatulis at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 23 05:09:03 CET 2007


Le Jeudi 22 Mars 2007 14:01, Peter a écrit :
> Le Jeudi 22 Mars 2007 13:14, Dragon a écrit :
> > Peter wrote:
> > >I'm resending this one.  Can anyone help?
> > >
> > >I have migrated a list from an old installation (2.1.5) to a new machine
> > >(running 2.1.8).  It appears that the move was successful since I can
> > > access its page at:
> > >
> > >http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin/<listname>
> > >
> > >But it does not show up on the main admin page:
> > >
> > >http://mailman.domain.com/mailman/admin
> > >
> > >This is the procedure I used for the move:
> > >
> > >cd /var/spool/mailman/lists
> > >cp -pr $OLD_MAILMAN/lists/<listname> .
> > >withlist -l -r fix_url <listname>
> > >cd ../archives/private
> > >cp -rp $OLD_MAILMAN/archives/private/<listname>.mbox/ .
> > >cleanarch -n < <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox
> > >cleanarch < <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox > tmp
> > >cp tmp <listname>.mbox/<listname>.mbox
> > >arch --wipe <listname>
> > >
> > >There are no errors in mailman/logs.
> >
> > ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
> >
> > If you want to see it on the main page, the list must be advertised.
> >
> > Go to the list's admin page, go to Privacy Options and set advertised =
> > yes.
>
> Problem.
>
> I accessed the list's admin page [I don't know how it worked with the
> password I gave (it was the one I use for my other test lists)] and any
> links I choose (like the privacy options; to make it advertised) does not
> use the correct URL.  It uses localhost.my.domain.  I thought this would
> have been fixed by my migration method (fix_url).

I fixed the URL problem (I forgot the vital option: the URL) except I see that 
for one link the URL did not change.  In the archives "More information about 
this list" is still the old one.

Any ideas why this may be?

Pedro


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