[Mailman-Users] unable to start Mailman

[Tanstaafl]

(Sorry for replying to an older thread, I'm going back through older 
unread mails)

Maybe these should be made an official part of mailman's extra tools?

And maybe updated to work with MM3?

On 2013-11-05 2:46 PM, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-mailman at fmp.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-11-05 at 13:14 -0600, c cc wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> MAILMANHOME=/usr/lib/mailman
>> MAILMANCTL=$MAILMANHOME/bin/mailmanctl
>>
>> Here how I moved my lists over to the new server:
>
> FWIW, here are the two scripts I use to move Mailman accounts, with
> their archives, from one computer to another.  I've never had a single
> problem when using them and have moved a lot of lists with them.
>
> The first script creates an gzip archive of the list in /tmp, plus a
> marker file indicating whether or not the list's posting archive is
> public or private.  It's called /usr/local/sbin/tar_list.sh and gets run
> by root to tar up the list's files.
>
>          #!/bin/sh
>          if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
>          	echo 'Usage: tar_list.sh <listname>'
>          	exit
>          fi
>
>          if [ ! -e /var/lib/mailman/lists/$1 ]; then
>          	echo "$1: No such list!"
>          	exit
>          fi
>
>          mkdir /tmp/$1
>          cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/
>
>          echo Creating $1_list.tar.gz ....
>          tar -czvf $1_list.tar.gz $1
>          mv $1_list.tar.gz /tmp/$1
>
>          cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
>
>          echo Creating $1_archive.tar.gz ....
>          tar -czvf $1_archive.tar.gz $1
>          mv  $1_archive.tar.gz /tmp/$1
>
>          echo Creating $1_archive_mbox.tar.gz ....
>          tar -czvf $1_archive_mbox.tar.gz $1.mbox
>          mv $1_archive_mbox.tar.gz /tmp/$1
>
>          if [ -L /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/$1 ]; then
>          	touch /tmp/$1/$1_archive_is_public
>          fi
>
> The second script lives in ~mailman/bin on the receiving system and is
> called untar_list.sh.  It gets run by the mailman user, which must have
> a login shell, even if only temporarily.  If you don't have the root
> password on the remote system, or if ssh is forbidden for root, then
> change the account name to that of an unprivileged user on line 8 and 9.
>
>          #!/bin/sh
>          if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
>                  echo 'Usage: untar_list.sh <server> <listname>'
>                  exit
>          fi
>
>          cd ~/tmp/
>          echo "Give root password on remote system ..."
>          scp root@$1:/tmp/$2/* .
>          cd /var/lib/mailman/lists/
>
>          echo ""
>          echo "Creating list $2 ..."
>          tar -xzvpf ~/tmp/$2_list.tar.gz
>
>          cd /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
>
>          echo ""
>          echo "Creating archive for $2 ..."
>          tar -xzvpf ~/tmp/$2_archive.tar.gz
>
>          echo "Creating archive mbox for $1 ..."
>          tar -xzvpf ~/tmp/$2_archive_mbox.tar.gz
>
>          if [ -e ~/tmp/$2_archive_is_public ]; then
>          	ln
>          -s /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/$2 /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/$2
>          fi
>
>          echo""
>          echo "If no errors, delete files in ~/tmp and delete /tmp/$2
>          directory on remote system"
>
>
>