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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Woops.
My bad, the page is here: https://www.sympa.org/faq/change_robot_name

Sorry.

David Verdin a écrit :
> 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
> >
> > --------------
> > Pat Allen (address@concealed & http://www.mbari.org/staff/pat)
> > Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
> > 7700 Sandholdt Rd, Moss Landing, CA 95039
> > (voice) 831-775-1724; (fax) 831-775-1620
> >
> >
> >   

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David Verdin
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