The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

We wrote a page providing guidance when moving from a virtual host to 
another. This looks very similar to your question.
You can find this page here: 
https://www.sympa.org/internals/internals-session

Cheers,

Allen, Pat a écrit :
> Hi everyone -
>
> I'm in the final steps of converting from Lyris to Sympa. I will be 
> converting from one system to the other over a weekend to minimize the 
> disruption on my users. So I would like to create all the lists on the Sympa 
> server and load all the member tables into the lists in advance of the 
> weekend.
>
> Here's the situation that I currently have. My Lyris server is on a host whose physical 
> name is landspout.shore.mbari.org. I have DNS CNAME records for 
> listserver.shore.mbari.org and listserver.mbari.org which point to 
> landspout.shore.mbari.org. All the users and all the sendmail and Exchange servers only 
> know about the "listserver" names. This has allowed me to move the Lyris 
> installation from one physical host to another in the past without the users knowing it.
>
> My Sympa server is on a host whose physical host name is 
> tundra.shore.mbari.org. I have DNS CNAME records currently set up for 
> listserver2.shore.mbari.org and listerserver2.mbari.org which point to 
> tundra. My sympa domain is listserver2.mbari.org so all the lists are known 
> as address@concealed. Everything is working great.
>
> My goal is to create all the lists on the Sympa server and then to load the member tables. Then on the weekend that I cutover, I want to 
> 1. Shutdown landspout (the Lyris server)
> 2. Load in all the archives from Lyris
> 3. Change DNS so that the "listserver" CNAME records point to tundra (the 
> Sympa server)
> 4. Change the Sympa domain from "listerver2.mbari.org" to 
> "listserver.mbari.org"
>
> I know how to do steps 1-3. What exactly is involved in step #4? I know that 
> you need to update the sympa.conf file and rename all the directories under 
> /home/sympa. But I seem to recall that the domain name is written to the 
> database in a few places. Are there some database commands which need to be 
> run to change the domain name?
>
> Also, does anyone see any steps that I'm missing?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> Pat
>
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> Pat Allen (address@concealed & http://www.mbari.org/staff/pat)
> Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
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David Verdin
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