Mailman 3 October 2001 - Mailman-Developers

Re: [Mailman-Developers] What to do with a corrupt config.db?
by J C Lawrence 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Aaron D Turner <aturner(a)pobox.com> wrote: > It seems all the config.db's (and their .last's) for all my lists > are now corrupt. At least check_db says so. Since there doesn't > seem to be anyway to fix this, perhaps there is a way to extract > the email addresses/passwords for the lists so I can recover? I'd be far more worried about finding out how and why. You have serious data corruption on your hands. Hunt that down first. config.db files are streamed python objects. If you can't load them under python (which you should be able to) then something is Badly Wrong. About your only recourse at that point is trying to run strings against them. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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Re: [Mailman-Developers] What to do with a corrupt config.db?
by J C Lawrence 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 14:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Aaron D Turner <aturner(a)pobox.com> wrote: > I'm guessing it has to do with the upgrade I just did. It seems > to be mailman related as these seem to be the only corrupted files > on the system that I can tell. If you upgraded Mailman, ensure that the upgrade process also upgraded the config.db's to the new format. There's a command in ~/bin to do that. > Heh, forgot about strings. Yeah, that worked nicely. No way to > recover the passwords, but hey, at least I have my subscriber list > again. Yeah, I've been there (while tracking a nasty kernel bug that kept whacking my filesystem). Not I have cron jobs that email me the results of ~/bin/dump_config. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw(a)kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.

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What to do with a corrupt config.db?
by Aaron D. Turner 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It seems all the config.db's (and their .last's) for all my lists are now corrupt. At least check_db says so. Since there doesn't seem to be anyway to fix this, perhaps there is a way to extract the email addresses/passwords for the lists so I can recover? I'm more than willing/able to write a perl script to parse it out, if I just knew the file format (though i can prolly get the email addresses out without much difficulty). Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions? Thanks. - -- Aaron Turner <aturner(a)pobox.com|synfin.net|linuxkb.org> URI:www.synfin.net They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin pub 1024D/F86EDAE6 Sig: 3167 CCD6 6081 0FFC B749 9A8F 8707 9817 F86E DAE6 All emails by me are PGP signed; a lack of a signature indicates a forgery. I have retired my PGP 2.6.2 key: FBE1 CEED 57E4 AB80 596E 60BF 451B 20E8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at: http://www.synfin.net/aturner/pgpkey.asc iEYEARECAAYFAju6ALQACgkQhweYF/hu2uZ8wACeMzlq++UjA3zuMhSEvsc9McUp HqcAn0gD4ywicbKxyRF4/Ihg2T6bq45I =uSaH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Which version of mimelib with latest CVS?
by Luca Maranzano 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Hi, just a quick question: which version of mimelib is necessary to use latest (this morning) CVS of MM ? I'm currently using 0.4. TIA, Luca

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registered
by sguner＠online.emich.edu 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

I have registered under the name Turkiye(a)list.emich.edu. I was wondering what I do next. How do I retrieve this account? Could you please guide me step by step. Password is eastern. Thank you Sinem Guner Eastern Michigan University

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