[Mailman-Users] Rebuilding archives, stop mailman?

[Dragon]

Dewhirst, Rob sent the message below at 05:03 PM 7/18/2006:

> > My suggestion to minimize impact is to create a copy of the
> > .mbox file in another directory, edit it as needed. Shut down
> > mailman, move the file over to where it needs to be using the
> > mv command. Restart mailman.
> >
> > Better safe than sorry.
>
>that very close to my plan -- I've already done the editing and /arch
>--wipe on a test system, but my main question was whether or not mailman
>should be running while the arch script was running.  Sounds like it's
>not a good idea, which was my suspicion.
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Good question, though I don't think it matters much when running the 
arch script. But I could be wrong...

It never hurts to take the conservative approach though. I'd say shut 
it down and do the update during a low traffic period like late at night.



Dragon

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