We too had the signup files issue Margaret writes about when we moved from
AIX to linux, but haven't seen it on moves between linux boxes. On that
move, we also had issues with listserv global files: fixed by deleting
files that didn't come with the listserv distro, and running 'nodesgen'
once it was up to rebuild.

We moved listserv twice (linux to linux) in 2004 (the first box turned out
to be flakey, hardware-wise), and it got pleasantly boring.  This was
without changing the Listserv software and assumes the box is just doing
listserv:.

- build/secure/patch the new box to local standards.  Apache and
sendmail (or equivalents) running.  If either has been tweaked for
Listserv, re-tweak.

- check out /etc and such: add listserv-specific stuff (/etc/smrsh,
/etc/wa-config, and lsv_amin/ and lcmd in path come to mind).

- all our listserv and local related code is in /home or /usr/local, so
we just rsync'd them (making sure uids/gids are the same on both boxes).

- take down services, do a final rsync, change dns and local ip defs,
take down old box, bring up new.

--
Jean Snow  Production Systems Support
Enterprise Information Technology Services
University of Georgia

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Margaret King wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
>
> If people have passwords set up and you want to bring those
> over, that means you'll have to move the SIGNUP files.  We
> had trouble getting this to work until I asked L-Soft support
> for help.  It seems we needed to "re-hash the SIGNUP files."
> I am not sure whether this was something unique to us (we
> were moving from AIX to Linux, and on an older Listserv
> version) or whether it is generally applicable.  I don't
> recall reading about it in the regular documentation (which
> doesn't guarantee it wasn't in there.)  Anyway, L-Soft
> support can tell you how to do it.
>
> We set up the new system as a test system ahead of time
> (of course we worked out the license issues with L-Soft)
> with Listserv, a mailer, and a web server.  That way we
> could test moving a test list first, well in advance of
> our actual migration.
>
> Margaret King
> Michigan State University
>
>
> Wayne T. Smith wrote:
>> Are there LSoft comments/documents concerning moving to a new (Linux to
>> Linux, sendmail) machine? Others care to comment?
>>
>> I have a LISTSERV on Linux installation with a couple of hundred lists
>> that I'd like to move to a new machine. When in production, the new
>> machine will have the same name as the old production system.  I'd like
>> the move to be invisible to list owners and subscribers.  Any words of
>> wisdom on how to do it?
>>
>> I also need to upgrade from 1.8e (2002a) to the current version 14.3, but
>> expect that will have to be a separate step, probably after the hardware
>> move.  Comments?
>>
>> Thanks and cheers, wayne
>>
>>
>