Re: [Mailman-Developers] What to do with a corrupt config.db?
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Aaron D Turner <aturner@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.
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Aaron D Turner <aturner@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.
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.
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.
Well I know nothing about that or Python.
About your only recourse at that point is trying to run strings against them.
Heh, forgot about strings. Yeah, that worked nicely. No way to recover the passwords, but hey, at least I have my subscriber list again.
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:25:47PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
Aaron D Turner <aturner@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.
Some people are coders, some people are operators.
Cheers, -- jra
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