Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-18 Thread Mike Avery
Mark Sapiro wrote: > > If you have the entire mailman tree, that's it. Just restore it and > start Mailman. > > Thanks for the pointers! We're back on line and my users have stopped whinging. Best wishes, Mike -- Mailman-Users mailing lis

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-17 Thread Mark Sapiro
Mike Avery wrote: > >Luckily, I'd been doing weekly backups, so I didn't lose more than a day >or two of messages. I backed up by running tar on the entire mailman >directory structure. And it's all there! > >But, now comes the fun part, how do I recreate the mailing lists, the >archives, and

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman after a crash?

2007-11-17 Thread Mike Avery
Until last week, I was pretty lucky with Mailman. I installed it, and it did its thing. Beautifully. Last week my FreeBSD system had a disk crash. The drive only makes sickening clicking sounds and SpinRite can't touch it. Luckily, I'd been doing weekly backups, so I didn't lose more than a

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman

2006-04-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brian Fahrlander wrote: > >Well, it appears to have worked, despite a permission problem >(between the two different installs). I sense that the archived >messages are a whole, other kettle-of-fish? :) If you have only the old archives, you can restore the archives/private/ and archives/pri

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman

2006-04-25 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 16:32 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > Brian Fahrlander wrote: > > > >And ya know- I coulda *sworn* the actual list of subscribers > >was in a text file, but it isn't. > > > Right. It's in lists//config.pck along with the list > configuration. > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman

2006-04-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Brian Fahrlander wrote: > >And ya know- I coulda *sworn* the actual list of subscribers >was in a text file, but it isn't. Right. It's in lists//config.pck along with the list configuration. >Key questions: > >1. What, explicitl

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman

2006-04-25 Thread Brian Fahrlander
Mailman is a well-made product; it's slick, simple, reliable, everything you'd want from a mailing list but one: a clearness of documentation. I've installed it three times, and I swear I don't know how I did it. Sendmail, on the other hand, when you've

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman lists

2006-04-25 Thread Brian Fahrlander
Mailman is a well-made, but odd product for an administrator (not a programmer): it's slick, simple, reliable, everything you'd want from a mailing list but one: a clearness of documentation. I've installed it at least three times, and I swear I couldn't tell you how to. Sendmail, on the other ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring mailman

2005-03-06 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael Sullivan wrote: >About a month ago I had a year-old version of mailman running on my >Fedora Core 1 mail server. FC1 installed mailman in /var/mailman, which >I added to my daily backup schedule. >Is it possible to obtain the subscriber list without >access to the old mailman interface?

[Mailman-Users] Restoring mailman

2005-03-06 Thread Michael Sullivan
About a month ago I had a year-old version of mailman running on my Fedora Core 1 mail server. FC1 installed mailman in /var/mailman, which I added to my daily backup schedule. I have since then wiped the FC1 box and installed Gentoo on it. I have finally gotten mailman to work properly. On the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman configuration from a distro to another

2005-01-14 Thread John Dennis
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:49, Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: > Fellows, > > IÂm having some trouble restoring a Mailman server. The problem is that > WeÂve built our mailman server originally with Fedora Core 2. Yesterday, the > Hard Disk stoped working, so we restored our backup (a 250 mb tgz fil

Re: [Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman configuration from a distro toanother

2005-01-14 Thread Mark Sapiro
Luis Fernando C. Talora wrote: > >So, here´s what I need: do anybody know how can I restore just the >configuration about the lists I had and their archives? Restore just contents of the lists/ and archives/ directories. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San F

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman configuration from a distro to another

2005-01-14 Thread Luis Fernando C. Talora
Fellows, I´m having some trouble restoring a Mailman server. The problem is that We´ve built our mailman server originally with Fedora Core 2. Yesterday, the Hard Disk stoped working, so we restored our backup (a 250 mb tgz file, restored to another server). Since I don´t have Fedora Core 2 CDs i

[Mailman-Users] Restoring Mailman

2002-03-22 Thread Matt Shirel
Hi, I admin a server (RH 7.2 running postfix and mailman 2.0.8 w/ htdig patches) that was hacked sometime in the past week. I've got the "infected" system offline and I'm preparing to do a full re-install since I currently don't trust anything. What is the best procedure for recovering the mail