Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux packages vs source install?

2016-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 12/29/2016 09:20 AM, Jay Sekora wrote: > > PS -- One other advantage to installing from distro packages, especially > on a widely deployed platform like Ubuntu, Fedora, or RHEL, is that a > large fraction of the other people out on the web are doing the same > thing, so if you run into somethin

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux packages vs source install?

2016-12-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
On 12/29/2016 08:51 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > > I realize this wasn't part of your question, but- > > On 12/29/2016 8:16 AM, Jay Sekora wrote: >> The old server is running Debian and Mailman 2.1.13 (from the Debian >> package). The new server is running Ubuntu and Mailman 2.1.16 (from the >> Ubu

Re: [Mailman-Users] Linux packages vs source install?

2016-12-29 Thread Jay Sekora
On 12/29/2016 11:51 AM, Carl Zwanzig wrote: > [changed the subject] > Hi, > > I realize this wasn't part of your question, but- > > On 12/29/2016 8:16 AM, Jay Sekora wrote: >> The old server is running Debian and Mailman 2.1.13 (from the Debian >> package). The new server is running Ubuntu and M

[Mailman-Users] Linux packages vs source install?

2016-12-29 Thread Carl Zwanzig
[changed the subject] Hi, I realize this wasn't part of your question, but- On 12/29/2016 8:16 AM, Jay Sekora wrote: The old server is running Debian and Mailman 2.1.13 (from the Debian package). The new server is running Ubuntu and Mailman 2.1.16 (from the Ubuntu Trusty package; we need to ru

[Mailman-Users] SOLVED! Missing data/heldmsg-* files (was Re: After migrating list to new server, config.pck database gets truncated by web UI)

2016-12-29 Thread Jay Sekora
Naturally, I was fighting with this for hours, and answered my own question a few minutes after sending my query. It looks like I need to copy the relevant heldmsg-$LISTNAME-* files from /var/lib/mailman/data along with the request.pck database. Apparently, when the CGI script queries the request

[Mailman-Users] After migrating list to new server, config.pck database gets truncated by web UI

2016-12-29 Thread Jay Sekora
(Note PS at bottom!) Hi. I'm prepping to migrate a bunch of lists (one at a time, due to huge number of lists and huge size of archives) from one server to another, and I've hit a snag with the first list I'm trying. After migrating the list (as described below), I can go to the lists admindb pa