[Mailman-Users] Archive Problem

[Mark Sapiro]

Jason L wrote:

>I just moved my mailman install to another machine it has the same 
>machine name and the lists are working but the archiving is not.  the 
>archives/private folder is empty, and each email that is sent produces 
>an error in the log.
>
>
>Nov 26 12:07:33 2009 (2374) Archive file access failure:
>    
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mto-scheduled.mbox/mto-scheduled.mbox 
>[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mto-scheduled.mbox/mto-scheduled.mbox'
>Nov 26 12:07:33 2009 (2374) Uncaught runner exception: [Errno 2] No such 
>file or directory: 
>'/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mto-scheduled.mbox/mto-scheduled.mbox'
>
>
>
>How can I fix this?  I've tried turning off the archives and back on but 
>nothing works.  I'm not worried about the old archive files I just want 
>it to start archiving from this point forward.


Evidently, you didn't move anything from archives/private/ on the old
server, and you moved the lists/LISTNAME/config.pck files. This is the
problem. Creating a new list also creates the directories
archives/private/LISTNAME/ and archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/ and the
file archives/private/LISTNAME/index.html with the empty archive
template.

The fact that you have no
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mto-scheduled.mbox/ directory is
responsible for the above error. create it with mode 2775 and
Mailman's group. That will get past the above error. Im not sure if
the missing archives/private/LISTNAME/ directory will cause a problem
or not, but to be on the safe side, you can create it too.

Or you can just move the archives/private/LISTNAME.mbox/LISTNAME.mbox
files from the old server and run bin/arch LISTNAME to build the
pipermail archive.

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