We upgraded from 1.8d to 14.4 on Solaris and the only problems worth mentioning we encountered are as follows: 1. Under 1.8d, if you did a lot of editing of templates, like I did, you may encounter problems -- such as getting the OLD 1.8d Login screen if that template was edited before the upgrade. Other server-wide templates that were edited under 1.8d could cause problems - I just removed them. 2. If you have List Owners who customized their home page, they will get the 1.8d archives page with their cutomized pages still there. The only problem we encountered was the "Server Archives" URL, prior to login to any particular list, trying to find archives under a "/cgi-bin/archives.html" directory -- I haven't solved this problem yet, but after login, the "Servers Archives" URL in the left nav bar is correct. Other problems are just people being confused about what is and what is not available based on your OS. For example, we run on Solaris and do not send mail to a WIN box with LSMTP, so I had to edit the template to remove the "mail-merge" button after Login again....just minor things to try and make an easier transition. We have never used change-logs due to disk space problems and we purchased a lic to use the Scope feature which has helped a great deal, but I haven't investigated if list change-logs are included under list quotas or not; if they are stored in /home then they are not. At any rate, that has been our experience so far. Like others have said, if you haven't edited templates it should be seamless to go to 14.4. So many of the new features in 14.4 are what our List Owners have been asking for! This was a good move for us. Aside: we also use Editor= x@y,(listname-L) and no one has yelled yet but I will check! I just recall a mention in the release notes that first parameter must be an e-mail address - but that has always been recommended as far back as I can remember. --Trish Trish Forrest Queen's University On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Harpe, Shawn wrote: > I have just completed this upgrade with different parts of it through > this year. It seems that we have both taken the same path for the > upgrade. I went from 1.8d right to 14.4 with no problem. > > Shawn Harpe > > -----Original Message----- > From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 12:40 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Upgrade path > > On Dec 13, 2004, at 3:46 PM, Al Lilianstrom wrote: > >> I recently inherited a 1.8d system running on NT. I've moved it to >> Windows Server 2003 and have been planning a 1.8e install. Should I do >> >> 1.8d to 1.8e to 14.3 >> >> or >> >> 1.8d to v14.3 >> >> or ? > > Why not upgrade to version 14.4, which recently came out? > Going from 1.8d to 14.4 should be no problem, especially > since you're upgrading within the same OS. I went from 1.8d > to 14.3 last January and from Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Linux > with no major glitches. I am planning to upgrade to 14.4 in the > next couple of weeks. > >