Darren G Pifer wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:33, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Is there a global mailbox file at archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox/telephone_logs.mbox or just the archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox/ directory without the file?
There is an archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox file but no archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox directory.
I don't understand. How can the file exist if the directory that contains it doesn't exist? Or are you saying that archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox is a file, not a directory? If so, what's in it? What do you see from
ls -la archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox
If the archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox/telephone_logs.mbox file exists and contains the past posts to the list, then
bin/arch --wipe list-name
should build archives. If the .mbox file is there and the HTML archives are not being created, there is probably a permissions issue.
Do I need to do something to rebuild telephone_logs.mbox? Is it looks for a telephone_logs.mbox/telephone_logs.mbox file? The index.html file is empty. Shouldn't contain something?
bin/arch --wipe telephone_logs
will look for archives/private/telephone_logs.mbox/telephone_logs.mbox by default and will fail if it's not found. There is an option to specify a different file. See bin/arch --help.
If you don't have the global .mbox file containing all the past posts, then you probably don't have anything to rebuild it from (unless you have the posts collected somewhere outside of Mailman), and you have no past archives.
There may be a permissions issue or something similar preventing archiving. Do you see anything relevant in Mailman's 'error' log?
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