Thank you for your responses,
reindexing did not help, producing the same error in first place.
Resaving the list header did help (immediately), and reindexing afterwards works again as expected.
I tried to reproduce the issue using some test-lists and found the same issues and solutions again.
I did hope the following restore order would also work (assuming
ABC is the list,
/home/listserv/notebook/abc is the folder of notebook files, etc …):
1.
restorecmd
/home/listserv/notebook/abc/*
2.
restorecmd
/var/www/html/archives/abc/*
3.
restorecmd
/home/listserv/home/abc.*
resulting in
abc.list as (nearly) last restored file.
However, resaving the list-config afterwards still is required.
Maybe in an earlier listserv-version (16.x and earlier) restore-only was sufficient..?
Best regards
Markus
Von: LISTSERV Site Administrators' Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Im Auftrag von Jacob Haller
Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2022 04:15
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Betreff: Re: [EXTERNAL] list xy has no archives after file restore, but files exist
On Oct 24, 2022, at 2:36 PM, King, Margaret <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
It may need to reindex them.
There is some command to do this but I am not sure I have ever used it, because re-saving the list header generally does it as a side effect, at least on the version we have here. I.e., going into Manual Configuration and hitting Save. In my experience you do not have to actually change anything.
Margaret King
Michigan State University
The command’s
reindex both nameoflist
(replacing ’nameoflist’ with the name of the mailing list) and it can be issued under ‘List Management’/‘LISTSERV Command’. (Updating the list’s configuration, or just clicking on ’Save’ on the list configuration page, will do the same
thing, as you say.)
If that doesn’t do the trick, then I would go under ’Server Administration’ to ’Site Configuration’ and look to see where WWW_ARCHIVE_DIR points to. In this location, create a subdirectory that has the same name as the mailing list. (If
this is on a LISTSERV for Unix server, then make sure the directory’s name is all lower case.) Then restart LISTSERV and see if the archives are now accessible.
This is a different location from the one given in the ’Notebook=‘ setting. The notebook directory contains the actual copies of the messages, while the WWW_ARCHIVE_DIR subdirectory contains files related to the web interface to the archives.
Some additional information can be found at https://www.lsoft.com/manuals/16.0/htmlhelp/site%20managers/ConfiguringLSSite.html#2342978 .
-jwgh