On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tony Rogers wrote:

> Quick question for anyone who has had this type of experence....

I have some experience on this one!

> I have a number of listserv lists on a Unix system that are moving to a
> NT box. How can I export the names and all the information on the unix
> boxes (SGI Irix) and cleanly moves them over to the NT box.

There are two solutions, a quick one, and a slower but safer one.

The quick one is to FTP all the LISTSERV files from the Unix box to the
NT box (I did not do this myself).

The slower one is to GET each list (including subscriber list) from the
LISTSERV on the Unix box and then PUT it to the LISTSERV on the NT box.
It took a couple of hours to move around 200 lists in this way, but it
does have the advantage that LISTSERV's internal checking procedures are
used.

One suggestion I offer you is that you should also edit the sendmail
aliases on the Unix box to divert mail sent to the old list addresses to
the new list addresses. If you are moving the entire LISTSERV system
accross (as I did), you can also edit the aliases to divert commands for
the old LISTSERV to the new one. Making these changes will make the
changeover as close to seamless as possible.

I hope this helps

John

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John Asher
Information Systems Manager, AIESEC United Kingdom
AIESEC LISTSERV Operations Team Leader
International AGIS Support Team Member
http://www.aiesec.org/uk/members/is/
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