Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list does not finish

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael McAndrew wrote: > >Thanks a lot, > >The triple string quotes didn't appear in the config file - they were in the >email only to show the start and end of the quoted config file: confusing in >retrospect. Yes, I was confused. >When I looked this morning, the lists were working again,and

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list does not finish

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael McAndrew wrote: >Apologies for the extra post, but some useful extra information. >sync_members does not work either. The list is locked. That's why the config_list and synch_members hang. They're waiting on the lock. And control-Zing them to the background just exacerbates the situation

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list does not finish

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Sapiro
Michael McAndrew wrote: > >Anyone know why the following command doesn't finish? It just hangs until I >escape with ctrl+Z And do you leave it in the background after that or what? >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# bin/config_list -i >vawupdate/scripts/carers.config.txt carers > >Configuration of

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list does not finish

2007-03-23 Thread Michael McAndrew
Apologies for the extra post, but some useful extra information. sync_members does not work either. On 3/24/07, Michael McAndrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Anyone know why the following command doesn't finish? It just hangs until > I escape with ctrl+Z > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail

[Mailman-Users] config_list does not finish

2007-03-23 Thread Michael McAndrew
Hi there, Anyone know why the following command doesn't finish? It just hangs until I escape with ctrl+Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman]# bin/config_list -i vawupdate/scripts/carers.config.txt carers Configuration of other lists with similar configuration files works fine. This seems to be an inter

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:21 AM -0700 2006-09-06, Dragon wrote: > The site-wide templates for each language are located on my system in > the directory /usr/local/mailman/templates/ That's the location for the as-shipped default templates, which will get over-written on the next re-install. > These would not ha

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:39 AM -0500 2006-09-06, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I didn't even know there *were* list-specific versions of that; could > you tell me where they end up if they're created? The list specific stuff would be under the /usr/local/mailman/lists directory. So, for example, it might be /usr/

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread Dragon
Ken Winter did speak thusly: >Thanks for the responses on copying customized HTML files. You are welcome and I am surprised that this has not been discussed before. This is something that really deserves a FAQ entry. If I have time later to do so, I may work one up. If not, and somebody else has

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread Ken Winter
Thanks for the responses on copying customized HTML files. Dragon was right about the location of customized files: /usr/local/mailman/lists///. Alas, I don't have the permissions to write to those dirs, so it's back to cut-and-paste on the web site. Some other comments are inserted below. ~

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On 9/6/06, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The templates are stored in the filesystem, in a variety of different > places depending on whether you're talking about the standard > as-shipped language dependent versions, the standard as-shipped > language independent versions, the site-wid

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-06 Thread stephen
Brad Knowles writes: > At 2:30 PM +0900 2006-09-06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The templates are stored in the filesystem, in a variety of different > places depending on [all kinds o' things]. > > How you would pick and choose which specific templates are to be > considered as part

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:30 PM +0900 2006-09-06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. Is there some way to get config_list to do this? > > > > Not that I know of, at least not without making source-code level > > changes to the tool. > > This really ought to be fixed. I don't know if the templates are even > s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-05 Thread stephen
Brad Knowles writes: > So far as I know, the config_list tool only captures those items > which are stored in the Python pickle which contains what Mailman > thinks of as the list configuration items. Kinda miserly of it, isn't it? > > 1. Is there some way to get config_list to do this?

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-05 Thread Dragon
Brad Knowles sent the message below at 15:07 9/5/2006: >At 5:41 PM -0400 2006-09-05, Ken Winter wrote: > > > 3. If not, is there some easier way to do it than opening the "source" and > > "target" lists in the administrator web sites and cutting-and-pasting the > > HTML from one to the other? >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 5:41 PM -0400 2006-09-05, Ken Winter wrote: > The config_list utility doesn't include the "public HTML pages" (most > importantly for me, the "General List Information Page") as part of the > configuration that it copies from one list to another. Since I have > drastically customized my Li

[Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't copy the "Public HTML Pages"

2006-09-05 Thread Ken Winter
The config_list utility doesn't include the "public HTML pages" (most importantly for me, the "General List Information Page") as part of the configuration that it copies from one list to another. Since I have drastically customized my List Info Page, this rather impedes cloning my lists. So,

[Mailman-Users] config_list doesn't copy the HTML forthe public HTML pages

2006-09-02 Thread Ken Winter
Thanks to Mark and others for getting me unstuck. All is well, except for one thing: The config_list utility doesn't include the "public HTML pages" (most importantly, the "General List Information Page") as part of the configuration that it copies from one list to another. This provokes three

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list

2006-04-21 Thread Mark Sapiro
Carconni wrote: > >I have a couple of quick questions - if I copy my /private/var/mailman >directory to another location will I be able to use it to restore my listserv >with it if something goes wrong with it? Probably. There are potential issues if things are being changed while the copy is r

[Mailman-Users] config_list

2006-04-19 Thread Carconni
Hi, Were migrating from dmail to mailman. I have a couple of quick questions - if I copy my /private/var/mailman directory to another location will I be able to use it to restore my listserv with it if something goes wrong with it? I have over 300 lists and I need to modify 'generic_nonmembe

[Mailman-Users] config_list hosing config

2004-02-09 Thread Paul Makepeace
Outputting a config then slurping it back in seems to screw something up, # config_list -o /tmp/mmtest mmtest # config_list -o /tmp/mmtest mmtest # config_list -i /tmp/mmtest mmtest # config_list -i /tmp/mmtest mmtest Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/config_list", line 353, in

[Mailman-Users] Config_list doesn't do anything

2003-01-13 Thread Tom Maddox
I have an odd problem with Mailman 2.0.8 that appears to have been going on for a while. To wit, the config_list program doesn't appear to actually update a target list. When I run config_list with the -v option, it says that the specified attributes have been changed, but when I run "config_list

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list

2001-01-02 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> Note that he did a newlist BETA. If he had done cp MM> lists/ALPHA/config.db lists/BETA/config.db, and then a MM> move_list BETA, that would have kept the list membership, but MM> a newlist BETA creates an empty list, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list

2001-01-02 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 05:56:41PM -0500, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > > "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > > I'd like to use "config_list" to transfer list ALPHA's configuration > > to a new list BETA. Is this

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list

2001-01-02 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
> "MM" == Marc MERLIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I'd like to use "config_list" to transfer list ALPHA's configuration > to a new list BETA. Is this the recommended procedure? > > > 1) bin/config_list -o config.ALPHA ALP

Re: [Mailman-Users] config_list

2000-12-30 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:11:25PM -0500, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I'd like to use "config_list" to transfer list ALPHA's configuration > to a new list BETA. Is this the recommended procedure? > > > 1) bin/config_list -o config.ALPHA ALPHA > > 2) cp config.ALPHA config.BETA > > 3) Use a

[Mailman-Users] config_list

2000-12-26 Thread Kenneth Jacker
I'd like to use "config_list" to transfer list ALPHA's configuration to a new list BETA. Is this the recommended procedure? 1) bin/config_list -o config.ALPHA ALPHA 2) cp config.ALPHA config.BETA 3) Use an editor to change all occurrences of "ALPHA" in "config.BETA" to "BETA" 4