Re: [Mailman-Users] Trimming archives

2005-10-31 Thread Mark Sapiro
Darren G Pifer wrote: > > In reviewing posts to this mailing list, I found that it is not >possible to prune the archives. I don't know what gave you that idea. Perhaps you saw my post at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2005-October/047180.html, but that only said "There is n

Re: [Mailman-Users] Trimming archives

2005-10-31 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:10 AM -0500 2005-10-31, Darren G Pifer wrote: > In reviewing posts to this mailing list, I found that it is not > possible to prune the archives. Not automatically, no. > However, we will need to do something > shortly because the filesyst

[Mailman-Users] Trimming archives

2005-10-31 Thread Darren G Pifer
Hello, In reviewing posts to this mailing list, I found that it is not possible to prune the archives. However, we will need to do something shortly because the filesystem that we have mailman on is now 84% full, mostly due to the growing archives. We are using LVM under Linux and I can inc

Re: [Mailman-Users] trimming archives

2003-04-03 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote: > How do you trim back archives? I presume > > find {$MAILMAN}/archives/private -name "*.gz" -exec rm "{}" \; > > would be a bad idea as the indices still think they exist (or would > the cronjobs fix this) > Before I get a flurry

[Mailman-Users] trimming archives

2003-04-03 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
How do you trim back archives? I presume find {$MAILMAN}/archives/private -name "*.gz" -exec rm "{}" \; would be a bad idea as the indices still think they exist (or would the cronjobs fix this) Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Stern

Re: [Mailman-Users] trimming archives

2001-01-21 Thread David
Does this mean that every thing is built based on the mbox file, in my case: /archives/private/forum.mbox/forum.mbox ? If I edit the offending emails from that file, do I then run mailman@host ~$ rm -rf /home/mailman/archives/private/forum/* mailman@host ~$ /bin/arch forum /archives/private/fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] trimming archives

2001-01-20 Thread Dan Mick
David wrote: > > I have just set up a new list, and have a number of test messages in the > archive that I would rather weren't there. > > Is there an easy way to do this - ie, selectively delete threads or > messages? Depends on what you mean by easy, but you can just edit the .mbox file, de

[Mailman-Users] trimming archives

2001-01-20 Thread David
I have just set up a new list, and have a number of test messages in the archive that I would rather weren't there. Is there an easy way to do this - ie, selectively delete threads or messages? David. -- Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PRO