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
>
>