Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-30 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:01, John W Baxter wrote: > As I read config_list, it produces Python code which can be exec-ed in > order to rebuild the list configuration. Umm.. it looks to me as though config_list dumps some pythonish code that can be read by config_list to set the list parameters *ot

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread John W Baxter
At 12:37 -0800 10/29/2001, J C Lawrence wrote: >On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:29:12 -0800 >John W Baxter wrote: > >> At 11:12 -0800 10/29/2001, Dan Mick wrote: >>> JC means "config_list", but I'm missing something; if you just >>> want to back the files up, why don't you just back them up? They >>> don

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On 29 Oct 2001 15:39:50 + Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote: >> Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having >> to wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object >> and marshalling that to disk. No

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:29:12 -0800 John W Baxter wrote: > At 11:12 -0800 10/29/2001, Dan Mick wrote: >> JC means "config_list", but I'm missing something; if you just >> want to back the files up, why don't you just back them up? They >> don't need to be transmogrified on the way out and back

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread John W Baxter
At 11:12 -0800 10/29/2001, Dan Mick wrote: >JC means "config_list", but I'm missing something; if you just >want to back the files up, why don't you just back them up? >They don't need to be transmogrified on the way out and back in. I think I'd feel more comfortable with a tool which takes a (n

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Dan Mick
> On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote: > > Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having to > > wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object and > > marshalling that to disk. Not a big pain to be sure, but more pain > > than you get with configdb. Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 15:32, J C Lawrence wrote: > Restoring a dumpdb file is a bit of a pain as you end up having to > wrap it in a bit of python that mays it look like an object and > marshalling that to disk. Not a big pain to be sure, but more pain > than you get with configdb. Using configd

Re: [Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread J C Lawrence
On 29 Oct 2001 11:06:30 + Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And a further question, in the light of this I ought to dump the > list database (say) every 6 hours and keep a weeks back set of > them. I guess I can script round the dumpdb command to do this - > but how do I resto

[Mailman-Users] List state db is corrupt

2001-10-29 Thread Nigel Metheringham
[People may have noticed that the exim.org lists are currently down - this is why] I have a Mailman 2.0.6 install running with a current exim. Nothing has been changed since the Mailman upgrade a few weeks back. However it appears that (possibly due to an expected system restart - although the