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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 23/01/2024 23:39, Konstantin Lepikhov wrote:
> Hi Scott!
>
> On 01/23/2024, at 04:09:20 PM you wrote:
>
> > Konstantin,
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.  I did use your code.  However it still appears to be 
> > for moving from mailman to sympa on the same server.  Rather than a new 
> > server.  And my issue is the new server does not support mailman and thus is 
> > not really easy to install it on.  And when I'm running your script I'm 
> > getting these errors over and over again. Any idea what I may be missing?
> >
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 106.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 122.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 126.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 44.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 51.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 58.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 65.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 72.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 79.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 86.
> > Use of uninitialized value $mmcfg in pattern match (m//) at lib/mmparse.pm 
> > line 93.
> yes, the script fails because it's unable to find mailman config on new
> server (I've missed the fact that you installing sympa on server without
> mailman).
>
> Okay, then you can do the following:
>
> - just copy mailman configuration and list data from old server to new
>    server where you install sympa. Scripts itself don't require mailman, so
>    just have list data and mm config is enough.
>
>  From old mailman server you need:
> - your mailman list configuration files (usually in /var/lib/mailman or
>    /usr/local/lib/mailman for local install).
> - your list archives (same dir as list configuration)
> - contents of /usr/share/mailman dir to unpicke list configuration.
>
> On new server make sure that you have python2 and python2 json module,
> jq, perl, perl-JSON and perl-DBI modules, awk and sed (or use docker
> container with those tools installed and remove it after migration).

Current servers use Python 3, Python2 is EOL.

Regards
      Racke

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