Turns out that this was caused by my use of an "eval" license key.
I also found that the default number of signup files is 11 for the
Classic version and 13 for the HPO version.  


On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:49:43PM -0600 or thereabouts, Brian Bohlmann wrote:
> We're currently testing migrating from AIX to Solaris and ran
> into this SIGNUP file rehash issue. After setting the SIGNUP_HASH
> variable to "13", 13 signup files were created and we could login
> ok. But very soon afterward(within a minute) the 13 signup files
> were combined into 1 signup file. We were still able to login, but
> why this happened is a mystery at the moment. I left the 
> SIGNUP_HASH="13" variable setting in the go.user file and restarted
> the server with the same results. 13 signup files were initially
> created, but a few seconds later, they disappeared and only 1 signup
> file remained. Has anyone else seen this behavior?
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:05:07PM -0500 or thereabouts, 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
> > >
> > >
> 
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