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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On 4/5/19 10:32 AM, address@concealed wrote:

> My hosting company has had some hardware failure that seems to have damaged
> some data. While they have recovered to the point I can load the sympa web
> page, it reports that there are no lists. The list archives seem to all be
> there, but I'm not sure how to recover from this. Any suggestions?

One would hope that you had a full backup of the software, the config, 
and the data - starting with /etc/sympa/ and /home/sympa/

Not sure what you're using for an init system, but you might start by 
running "/etc/init.d/sympa status" or the systemd equivalent.

Sympa is a pretty complicated beast, it tends to require some knowledge 
& skill to install and administer. You need to have whomever that is, 
take a look.  And, again, hopefully you have backups!

Miles Fidelman



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