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[Dan Pritts <address@concealed>]

On Mar 15, 2011, at 4:35 PM, John Dalbec wrote:

> On the linked page it says you upgraded from 3.4 to 6.1.  Do the scripts 
> work for any 6.x version?

your mileage may vary.  :)

AFAIK they should work fine in 6.0 and 6.1.  I do not know what is changing 
for 6.2 so I don't know whether they will still work.  I would guess they 
would but I dunno.

I also don't know the difference between sympa 3.4 and 4.0, but i suspect it 
won't matter.

>  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
>> --
>> Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer
>> Internet2
>> office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer
Internet2
office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224