On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:14 AM — 3/20/07, Christopher Wilson wrote:

> We are currently planning/prepping for a *major* jump/move from  
> 1.8d on Solaris to 15 on SuSE in a VM. So far, the only issues  
> encountered have been the (already documented at length in various  
> VMWare forums) system clock issues, which were fairly easily  
> resolved. We will also be switching MTAs from Sendmail to Postfix - 
> in part because the /etc/aliases entries have reached an almost  
> unmanageable number (~45k lines!), and under Postfix, delivery to  
> Listserv can just be the default. On the HTTPD side, we just moved  
> from an ancient Netscape server to Apache on the current machine  
> with no issues, and the new instance will also be running Apache.
>
> Since this is a major jump, we intend to use this as an opportunity  
> to force all of the list owners to migrate their lists to the new  
> server via a series of CGI pages, and begin enforcing various  
> policies regarding list configuration and ownership at the system  
> level.
>
> We're moving as much stuff as possible into VMs both to reduce  
> floor space consumption, and for business continuity reasons. So  
> far, no major problems- even with VMs accessing SAN resources, and  
> doing network backups and restores.

Wow! That's quite an ambitious project to do all at once. You are not  
going to move the lists for the list owners?