[Mailman-Users] Moving the data to a different disk or partition

[John Dennis]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 09:48 +0800, Glen Low wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> On the installation instructions at  
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/create-install- 
> dir.html I read:
> 
> =====
> 
> Typically, Mailman is installed into a single directory, which includes  
> both the Mailman source code and the run-time list and archive data. It  
> is possible to split the static program files from the variable data  
> files and install them in separate directories.
> 
> =====
> 
> Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to split off the data  
> (variable) portions onto a different disk or partition or directory,  
> especially after installation -- short of creating symlinks. Anyone  
> know?

by running configure with the --with-var-prefix set to the directory of
your choice. When you do the "make install" step that directory will be
created and populated with mailman's data files. The shorthand "var"
means variable.

This is documented elsewhere in the manual
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node7.html

and in the INSTALL file in the tarball, unfortunately the page you were
reading does not have a link to the configure parameters, which perhaps
it should and is probably why you missed it.
-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>