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[John Dalbec <address@concealed>]

On the linked page it says you upgraded from 3.4 to 6.1.  Do the scripts 
work for any 6.x version?  Also, if you want a literal control-M in Perl 
you should be able to use "\r".  Ditto for literal NULs and "\0".
Thanks,
John Dalbec
Software Specialist
Youngstown State University

On 3/11/2011 2:46 PM, Dan Pritts wrote:
> I did an upgrade from 3.x to 6.0 but i was too scared to try the upgrade 
> process.
>
> I wrote some tools, they are described here:
>
> http://www.sympa.org/contribs/migration_and_archives/danno/index
>
> On Mar 9, 2011, at 9:19 AM, BJ Walraven wrote:
>
> > I think you're looking for the upgrading steps when moving to another server, 
> > here:
> >
> > https://www.sympa.org/manual/upgrading#moving_to_another_server
> >
> > Specifically, it appears you're missing:
> >
> > - the /home/sympa/list_data directory that contains list config;
> > - the directory that contains the spools;
> >
> > Although you'll want to make sure you do all the steps.
> >
> > That being said, I haven't upgraded from that far back, so I'm not sure if a 
> > move from 4.0 to 6.x will be successful...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > BJ Walraven
> > Messaging and Collaboration Systems Administrator
> > Eastern Michigan University - Division of IT
> > address@concealed
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela"<address@concealed>
> > To: address@concealed
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 9:08:48 AM
> > Subject: [sympa-users] Updating Sympa, do I need to become an expert?
> >
> > I have a couple of old Sympa 4.0.a1 installations that desperately need
> > upgrading, with about a hundred lists each. I've tried following the
> > installation instructions for the new Sympa versions and was able to
> > create a blank working installation.
> >
> > However, I found that updating (since I really don't want to GUI in all the
> > information for the mailing lists) seems to be a quite a lot trickier affair.
> >
> > I tried restoring a full dump of the old database and then running the update
> > script on it, before I realized that (at least on the older Sympa), the actual
> > mailing lists do not seem to be a part of this database. So, where are they,
> > and why?
> >
> > I'm sure all this is documented somewhere, but I haven't been able to figure
> > out where. Unfortunately, I am really too lazy to become an expert on the
> > internal workings of Sympa, but is it inevitable?
> >
> > --
> > address@concealed (Mail Administrator, Otto J. Makela)
>
>
> danno
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