Seeking qfiles/shunt recovery advice.
Now that my archiver is working again, I have several files in qfiles/shunt that I'd like to recover and convince mailman to insert into my (now working) October archive. If it's possible to do so, I also have a few shunted files from the end of September that I'd like to recover and have included in the September archive as well.
Under the circumstances, I'd rather not attack this using a trial and error process. Can anyone point me to a post that explains how to retrieve and recover pck files from the qfiles/shunt directory and convince ARCHrunner to try processing them again?
Thanks!
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
Now that my archiver is working again, I have several files in qfiles/shunt that I'd like to recover and convince mailman to insert into my (now working) October archive. If it's possible to do so, I also have a few shunted files from the end of September that I'd like to recover and have included in the September archive as well.
Under the circumstances, I'd rather not attack this using a trial and error process. Can anyone point me to a post that explains how to retrieve and recover pck files from the qfiles/shunt directory and convince ARCHrunner to try processing them again?
Run Mailman's bin/unshunt --help
In this case all you should need to do is put the old *.pck files from the old shunt directory into the current shunt directory along with the current shunted *.pck files and run 'bin/unshunt'.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
As usual, you're right, Mark. That fixed it. As a result, I was able to recover at least some of the archived messages from September and many of the October messages that occurred during the "resurrection" and testing period too.
My trouble here was I could find no docs about shunt to guide me and never realized unshunt existed until I saw your note. I went for help to the only place I knew of where mailman's command line utilities were listed: www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html Shunt isn't even mentioned there. Next, I checked the Installation Docs again. No mention of the command line utilities there at all. Then I tried going to "man shunt" and struck out there as well.
You know, Mark, the trouble with the knowledge base surrounding mailman is there's an excess of knowledge but not enough "base" in any one spot to enable one to find the 'firmly grounded' answers one needs. It's way too 'swampy' in many places. In fact, it reminds me of the way my father-in-law (a lifelong soil scientist) used to describe the Rio Grande... Too thick to drink and too thin to plow! ;-)
Without your patient and expert guidance, mailman would be nearly impossible to install and use. Thanks again for your patience and help!
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark@msapiro.net] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 1:04 AM To: webwitchcraft@webwitchcraft.com; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Seeking qfiles/shunt recovery advice.
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
Now that my archiver is working again, I have several files in qfiles/shunt that I'd like to recover and convince mailman to insert into my (now working) October archive. If it's possible to do so, I also have a few shunted files from the end of September that I'd like to recover and have included in the September archive as well.
Can anyone point me to a post that explains how to retrieve and recover pck files from the qfiles/shunt directory and convince ARCHrunner to try processing them again?
Run Mailman's bin/unshunt --help
In this case all you should need to do is put the old *.pck files from the old shunt directory into the current shunt directory along with the current shunted *.pck files and run 'bin/unshunt'.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
TGPlatt, WebMaster wrote:
My trouble here was I could find no docs about shunt to guide me and never realized unshunt existed until I saw your note. I went for help to the only place I knew of where mailman's command line utilities were listed: www.gnu.org/software/mailman/site.html Shunt isn't even mentioned there. Next, I checked the Installation Docs again. No mention of the command line utilities there at all. Then I tried going to "man shunt" and struck out there as well.
You're right about the web page being incomplete. I'll try to update it. There is a FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/z4A9> that has a more complete list.
You know, Mark, the trouble with the knowledge base surrounding mailman is there's an excess of knowledge but not enough "base" in any one spot to enable one to find the 'firmly grounded' answers one needs. It's way too 'swampy' in many places.
The FAQ section of the wiki <http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3> is intended to address this. If you find it lacking, you can help by updating it.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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