[Mailman-Users] One private archive not appearing online - FIXED

[Jewel]

I realized that I was actually missing mylist in the private archives.  
Once I issued bin/arch mylist it successfully rebuilt the archive.  Thanks!

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> jewel.brueggeman-makda at washburn.edu wrote:
>
>   
>> I am wanting to rebuild an archive but when I issue the following
>> command either as mailman or root:
>>
>> bin/arch --wipe mylist
>> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "./arch", line 200, in ?
>>    main()
>>  File "./arch", line 177, in main
>>    shutil.rmtree(mlist.archive_dir())
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 155, in rmtree
>>    onerror(os.listdir, path, sys.exc_info())
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shutil.py", line 153, in rmtree
>>    names = os.listdir(path)
>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist'
>>
>> I believe this one archive has not been working for a very long time. 
>> The permissions are:
>> drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman   4096 Nov 19 12:11 .
>> drwxrws--x 200 mailman mailman  12288 Nov 19 12:14 ..
>> -rw-rw-r--   1 mailman mailman 502357 Sep  1 04:00 mylist
>>     
>
>
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist should be a directory, not a
> file.
>
> First make sure that
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox looks like
> it actually contains all the archived messages. Then look at
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist and see what it is. If you
> think you might want to keep it,
>
>  mv /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist somewhere/else
>
> otherwise, just
>
>  rm /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist
>
> Then do
>
>  bin/arch mylist
>
> without the --wipe option. You also don't need to specify
> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/mylist.mbox/mylist.mbox as the
> input as that is the defauly for 'mylist'.
>
>