Touch all of the unpacked files in the scratch directory, and run
make update again. I thought the kit was supposed to do that, I'll
double-check it and make sure it does in the future.
Nathan
At 03:38 PM 9/11/2005 -0400, Bill Verity wrote:
>I have same situation. The "older" listkwd.file has a newer date
>that matches when I installed 14.3. Looks like my stdcmd.file has
>the same problem. My production version does not list the PUTALL
>command, but the 14.4 version (that was not copied during the
>install) does have this command. However, PUTALL has worked for me
>for a long time.
>
>At 3:00 PM -0400 9/11/05, Dan Wheeler wrote
> >Nathan,
> >
> >Bill Verity wrote:
> >>Interesting. My listkwd.file did not update either. Strange. I
> wonder what else didn't move over?
> >
> >Two of us have now reported that the update was incomplete - at
> least one important file was not updated.
> >
> >Since you suggested that this might be a problem due to the
> common.tar.Z file, I downloaded Linux-2.6.bin and ran it to repeat
> the upgrade. The listkwd.file was not updated and the
> Configuration-owner keyword still does not work.
> >
> >I suspect that the problem is due to the fact that my listkwd.file
> from 14.3 has a date that is more recent than the file distributed
> with 14.4. This is because I installed 14.3 so I could move files
> over from another server that was running 14.3. Then I did the
> upgrade to 14.4. The listkwd.file is dated 2005-09-01, the date I
> installed 14.3. This is, of course, more recent than the 14.4
> distribution file which is dated 2005-04-19.
> >
> >I can easily copy over the listkwd.file, but I'm pretty sure there
> were other files that were not updated. What is the best way to
> recover from this situation?
> >
> >I also need to know how to avoid this problem in the first place.
> I am also LISTSERV maintainer for another site currently running
> LISTSERV for Solaris 14.3. We will soon be moving to a Linux box
> and I was planning to use the same process on it: install 14.3 on
> the Linux machine, copy the lists to it, and then upgrade to 14.4.
> I have good reasons for not wanting to upgrade the Solaris machine.
> >
> >Thanks for your help.
> >
> >--Dan
> >
> >>
> >>At 3:34 PM -0400 9/6/05, Dan Wheeler wrote:
> >>
> >>>Nathan,
> >>>
> >>>Nathan Brindle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>It sounds like your ~listserv/home/listkwd.file is out of
> date. How did you upgrade to 14.4? The new-fashioned .bin kit or
> the old-fashioned tar.Z kit?
> >>>>
> >>>>If the latter, it sounds like you didn't download and apply
> common.tar.Z along with Linux.tar.Z.
> >>>
> >>>Yes, I did it the old-fashioned tar.Z way.
> >>>
> >>>>(I'm assuming this is for the KIDLINK site which is running
> Linux and not the UC site which is running Windows.)
> >>>
> >>>Yes, this is the Kidlink LISTSERV. We have both moved to a new
> machine and upgraded from 14.3 to 14.4. The new machine is a SuSE
> Enterprise Server 9 system with a 2.6 kernel. The old machine was a
> Debian system with a 2.4 kernel.
> >>>
> >>>I did a completely fresh install of 14.3 from the tar.Z's on our
> new machine. I then copied over all of our list and archive files
> from our old 14.3 installation. This went smoothly and both the
> lists themselves and the web archives worked smoothly.
> >>>
> >>>The next step was the upgrade to 14.4. I did unpacked the
> tar.Z's and did a make update. It is possible that I unpacked the
> wrong version of common.tar.Z but I don't think so. It seemed to
> work smoothly. The release command shows:
> >>>
> >>>LISTSERV(R) for unix version 14.4, managed by:
> >>>[log in to unmask]
> >>>
> >>>Master nodes file version: 2005-09-01 13:13:02 (VERS9922)
> >>>NJE peers file version: 2005-09-01 13:13:01
> >>>Internet peers file version: 2005-09-02 15:05:07
> >>>Service file version: 2005-09-01 13:13:01 (VERS9922)
> >>>Alias file version: 2005-09-01 13:13:01
> >>>Running under: Linux 2.6.5-7.191-default
> >>>Build date: 19 Jun 2005
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I have just downloaded common.tar.Z again from:
> >>>
> >>>ftp://ftp.lsoft.com/LISTSERV/UNIX/
> >>>
> >>>The file information is:
> >>>
> >>>common.tar.Z 1663 KB 05/06/20 16:44:00
> >>>
> >>>When I untar this, I find:
> >>>
> >>>-rw------- 1 wheeledd wheeledd 153219 May 21 2002 listkeyw.memo
> >>>
> >>>but there is no listkwd.file in it!
> >>>
> >>>I have also looked in my temporary install directory for 14.4
> and found this file:
> >>>
> >>>-rw------- 1 502 502 2653 2005-04-19 09:35 listkwd.file
> >>>
> >>>The temporary directory for 14.3 contains:
> >>>
> >>>-rw------- 1 15 users 2616 2004-11-30 21:38 listkwd.file
> >>>
> >>>This matches the file size for the file in my current 14.4
> installation. My tentative diagnosis is that the make update failed
> to copy the new listkwd.file.
> >>>
> >>>What do you recommend that I do now? Is it enough to copy the
> listkwd.file to the right place or are there other things I should check?
> >>>
> >>>--Dan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>At 11:16 AM 9/5/2005 -0400, Dan Wheeler wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I was very pleased to read about the new Configuration-Owner
> keyword in version 14.4. This is exactly what we need. We have lots
> of moderators who should be able to change subscriptions but should
> NOT be messing around with the configuration.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I upgraded our installation to 14.4 a few days ago and tried
> to set the Configuration-Owner for one of our lists. This is what I got:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>The following problems have been detected in the list header:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>* CONFIGURATION-OWNER= (KIDOWNZ)
> >>>>>>Warning: There is no keyword by that name - check the spelling.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I know that this is a keyword that only the LISTSERV
> maintainer can change, but I am the LISTSERV maintainer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Peace, Dan
> >>>>>
> >>>>>=> Daniel D. Wheeler - Education & Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati
> >>>>>==> Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://wheeler.uc.edu
> >>>>>===> Teaching Human Rights Online: http://oz.uc.edu/thro
> >>>>>====> KIDLINK: http://www.kidlink.org
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>> Peace, Dan
> >>>
> >>>=> Daniel D. Wheeler - Education & Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati
> >>>==> Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://wheeler.uc.edu
> >>>===> Teaching Human Rights Online: http://oz.uc.edu/thro
> >>>====> KIDLINK: http://www.kidlink.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >--
> > Peace, Dan
> >
> >=> Daniel D. Wheeler - Education & Psychology, Univ. of Cincinnati
> >==> Email: [log in to unmask] URL: http://wheeler.uc.edu
> >===> Teaching Human Rights Online: http://oz.uc.edu/thro
> >====> KIDLINK: http://www.kidlink.org
>
>
>--
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>
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