[Mailman-Users] Relocating Mailman 1.1 lists
Dave Sherohman
esper at sherohman.org
Mon Jul 2 05:24:08 CEST 2001
I've recently had a drive go flaky on me and when the machine died,
several files were corrupted. I'm now trying to bring everything back
up on a new machine, copying over only what I must. This is turning
out well, except that I haven't been able to get my mailing lists working.
I've cpio'd over /var/lib/mailman/* and cp -a'd /etc/mailman/*, which
seems like it should be sufficient. (The references I found to this
sort of thing in the archives generally mention copying /home/mailman,
which doesn't exist in the debianized version.) However, sending mail
to one of my existing lists from the old system dies with
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/post", line 73, in ?
mlist.Post(msg, approved=fromusenet)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 1362, in Post
footer = self.msg_footer % d)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Deliverer.py", line 162, in DeliverToList
cmdproc.write("%d\n" % self.num_spawns)
AttributeError: num_spawns
and attempting to access any of their admin pages produces
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main
main()
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 168, in main
FormatConfiguration(doc, lst, category, category_suffix)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 306, in FormatConfiguration
form.AddItem(FormatOptionsSection(category, lst))
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 361, in FormatOptionsSection
AddOptionsTableItem(big_table, item, category, lst)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 376, in AddOptionsTableItem
val = GetItemGuiValue(lst, kind, varname, params)
File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 463, in GetItemGuiValue
return TextBox(varname, getattr(lst, varname), params)
AttributeError: num_spawns
The listinfo pages and archives remain intact and newly-created lists
are functional in all respects. check_perms and check_db claim that
the old lists are fine and list_members goes off without a hitch also,
so I'm fairly confident that I've just failed to copy some part of the
configuration of my existing lists. But what is this missing piece?
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