[Mailman-Users] Moved mailman to new server
Steve Pirk
orion at deathcon.com
Fri Mar 30 21:57:09 CEST 2001
Noah,
Check to make sure you added the "crontab" entries on the new
server. They are listed by running crontab -l as the user mailman.
Steve
orion at deathcon.com Owner/Admin
deathcon.com - pirk.com
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Noah Cantor wrote:
> i'm positive the email is going through the new machine, cause i checked the
> queue on the new machine. when i first moved everything, i cleared the queue,
> so there wouldn't be any ambiguity. all of the aliases are set up correctly on
> the new machine.
> as far as i know, mailman is still running on the old machine... i never
> turned it off, in any case.
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:04:28AM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
> > On 10:48 AM 3/30/01, Noah Cantor wrote:
> > >Hi all.
> > >
> > >Last night i moved my mailman files from one server to another. I made a tar
> > >of all the old files, did an scp to the new machine, untarred it, added the
> > >appropriate users (mailman, apache) with the same uid and gids that they had
> > >previously. whe i run check_list <listname> it tells me that the list is set
> > >up correctly, and that the database is working. however, when i send mail to
> > >that list, it gets stuck in the mailman queue,
> >
> > Is mailman still running on the old machine? Are you SURE the email you
> > are sending is going to (and being returned by) the new machine? Did you
> > look at the logs of the new machine to see the mail stuck in the queue, and
> > then bounced back?
> >
> > and eventually bounces back to
> > >me telling me that the list doesn't exist. eventually i bandaided the problem
> > >by NFS mounting the mailman directory onto the machine that it used to
> > run on,
> > >which solved the problem, but slowed down the mailing lists a considerable
> > >amount, because now they have to go across an NFS mounted drive. what i was
> > >wondering is if anybody has seen this before and has some idea of what i need
> > >to do to get mailman working on the new server. personally, i suspect that
> > >there's something wrong with the way apache is set up, but i can't find
> > >anything wrong with it.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Noah
> > >
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