[Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

[c cc]

Mark,

Here what I just found out:

I removed and reinstalled mailman again and just created a list named
mailman--it works fine. But mailman wont' start as soon as I migrated the
old lists over to the new server.

Is it possible that the old lists are not compatible? By the way, the
mailman version on the old server is 2..1.9 and the version on the new
server is 2.1.12. Any suggestions and help would be appreciated.


Once again, thanks for your help and patience.

Chalres






On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 11/05/2013 11:14 AM, c cc wrote:
> >
> > It seems like /etc/init.d/mailman and /etc/rc.d/mailman both are runing
> > /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl, as you can you below:
>
>
> Do you mean /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman? In RedHat/CentOS, /etc/init.d/ is
> a symlink to /etc/rc.d/init.d/.
>
>
> > MAILMANHOME=/usr/lib/mailman
> > MAILMANCTL=$MAILMANHOME/bin/mailmanctl
>
>
> So are you saying that 'service mailman start', which runs the script at
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman, complains about the missing site list, but
> '/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start' does not complain?
>
> If so, there must be some file included by /etc/rc.d/init.d/mailman that
> overrides one of those definitions. Either that, or the mailmanctl that
> the script runs is not $MAILMANCTL.
>
>
> > Here how I moved my lists over to the new server:
> >
> > 1. I renamed the /usr/lib/mailman to mailman.org <http://mailman.org>
> > 2. ln -s /mnt/ebs/volume/mailman /var/lib/mailman
> > 3 tarred up the /usr/lib/mailman/* mailman directory in the old server
> > 4.then  untarred archives, data, lists, and spam folders to the
> > //mnt/ebs-volume/mailman folder, which is linked to the /usr/lib/mailman
> > folder.
>
>
> Step 2 says /var/lib/mailman, not /usr/lib/mailman. /var/lib/mailman is
> the correct path to symlink.
>
>
> > ]# sudo find / -name mailman
>
>
> OK
>
>
> > Using the command line list_lists, it does show all the list, but the
> > lists do not show up on the web interface. I apologize for the
> > confusion. Once again, thanks for your help.
>
>
> No lists show up on the web interface or not all lists show up on the
> web interface? Are the missing lists accessible if you go to
> http://HOSTNAME/mailman/listinfo/LISTNAME and
> http://HOSTNAME/mailman/admin/LISTNAME. If so, see the FAQ at
> <
> http://wiki.list.org/DOC/4.17%20Why%20are%20lists%20missing%20from%20the%20listinfo%20page%3F
> >.
>
> --
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