[Mailman-Users] Mailman is awesome but.....

2006-10-29 Thread Capt Fiero
Ok our one of our resident tech guys that was a Linux guru set up a Linux box with Mailman on it. It was great. He left so I decided to try and set everything up myself. I am not a total newb, as I run a Windows Box with Apache and a few other server aps. Well at least I didn’t think I was a ne

[Mailman-Users] Mass Footer Change

2006-10-29 Thread Jason [WeatherServer]
I am completely Python stupid. How can I do a mass change of all footers on the lists I run without going list to list using the web interface. http://listserver.weatherserver.net Weather Alerts, Traffic Alerts, Toronto Fire CAD Alerts All to your em

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance on mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Peter Kofod wrote: >Any thoughts on what it means when the process is in a wa (wait?) state as >opposed to id (idle?). I am wondering if there is some type of thread >blocking (I am not a developer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last >night). Just wondering out aloud. Am I on to so

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance on mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:22 PM -0500 10/29/06, Peter Kofod wrote: > I wouldn't even have started looking in to it if it wasn't that the > system was so unresponsive. That's not unusual. Most systems get completely ignored unless there is some sort of catastrophic problem. > It literally took 20 minutes to get

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance on mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Kofod
Thanks Brad. I will give those vmstat switches a whirl. I wouldn't even have started looking in to it if it wasn't that the system was so unresponsive. It literally took 20 minutes to get a login prompt via ssh today. This was with no mail being processed. The only way it gets quick again

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance on mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:26 AM -0500 10/29/06, Peter Kofod wrote: > My blocks in (bi) and swap in (si) seem very high compared to what the > FAQ says. Furthermore, It looks like a lot of the processes are in a > wait state (far right), if I read this correctly. The Linux box you are comparing to in that FAQ en

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:05 PM +0100 10/29/06, Anders Norrbring wrote: > I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation. > I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. Keep in mind that 2.1.7 has been superceded by 2.1.8 and now 2.1.9. I believe that there may be some serious se

Re: [Mailman-Users] Performance on mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Peter Kofod
I checked out the article in 4.56. Here is the output from my vmstat 1 20 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 0 5 1910632 14280 1552 1502074 2 63

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Anders Norrbring
Thanks Mark, A very easy to go by description! I was thinking in these lines, but wanted to check first. Again, thanks. Anders. Mark Sapiro skrev: Anders Norrbring wrote: I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman

Re: [Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Anders Norrbring wrote: > >I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I >want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. >I'd like to move both lists and archives. > >On the mailman web site, a script called "move_list" is mentioned, but >that script doesn't ex

[Mailman-Users] How to move a list from 2.1.2

2006-10-29 Thread Anders Norrbring
I have a bunch of lists that resides on an old 2.1.2 installation.. I want to move these to a newer machine with Mailman v2.1.7. I'd like to move both lists and archives. On the mailman web site, a script called "move_list" is mentioned, but that script doesn't exist on any of my systems... T

Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Multiple installations on same server withExim4and mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phillip Ryker wrote: > >That was it! The <; did it. Thank you very much for the support. I >am temtped to write up a tutorial on how to do this since I already >have everything documented I have gone through. The mailman docs are >outdated. A tutorial would make a great addition to the FAQ.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Digest Options

2006-10-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 28, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Dragon wrote: > I'm in agreement with Mark here. I find this whole idea horrifying. > HTML is for web pages, not e-mail. > > Friends don't let friends do HTML e-mail. I'm by no means a fan of HTML email either, but /if/ w

[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Multiple installations on same server with Exim4and mailman

2006-10-29 Thread Phillip Ryker
Mark, That was it! The <; did it. Thank you very much for the support. I am temtped to write up a tutorial on how to do this since I already have everything documented I have gone through. The mailman docs are outdated. Thanks so much!! Phil On 10/28/06, Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot