Mailman fix_url.py

Reading Why aren’t my mm_cfg.py settings for DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN, DEFAULT_URL_HOST and DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST effective? tells of /usr/lib/mailman/bin/fix_url.py which can be run on a single list like this:

 bin/withlist -l -r fix_url  [fix_url options]

Or run on all lists like this:

 bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- [fix_url options]

Invoke fix_url.py by itself to get its help text:

jj5@sixsigma:/$ /usr/lib/mailman/bin/fix_url.py
Reset a list's web_page_url attribute to the default setting.

This script is intended to be run as a bin/withlist script, i.e.

% bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname [options]

Options:
    -u urlhost
    --urlhost=urlhost
        Look up urlhost in the virtual host table and set the web_page_url and
        host_name attributes of the list to the values found.  This
        essentially moves the list from one virtual domain to another.

        Without this option, the default web_page_url and host_name values are
        used.

    -v / --verbose
        Print what the script is doing.

If run standalone, it prints this help text and exits.

So, for example:

root@sixsigma:/var/lib/mailman# vim /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py
root@sixsigma:/var/lib/mailman# bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url -- -v
Importing fix_url...
Running fix_url.fix_url()...
Loading list bizdev (locked)
Setting web_page_url to: https://intranet.blackbrick.com/cgi-bin/mailman/
Setting host_name to: blackbrick.com
Saving list
Loading list mailman (locked)
Setting web_page_url to: https://intranet.blackbrick.com/cgi-bin/mailman/
Setting host_name to: blackbrick.com
Saving list
Finalizing

Slicehost DataCenter migration for St. Louis (STL) to Chicago (ORD)

Tonight I’m migration ProgClub and Blackbrick’s Slicehost slices from the St. Louis DataCenter to the Chicago DataCenter. I had to do a little prep work on charity, hope and honesty. Since that’s been done I’ve kicked off the migrations in the web-based Slice Manager, and at the moment I’m waiting for the migration operations to happen as they’re presently queued. There was some articles from Slicehost about the migration process which I read: Migration to Rackspace Cloud: [Sticky] St. Louis (STL) to Chicago (ORD) Migration Instructions and STL to ORD Migration Best Practices.

RIP Daniel Beck

A few months ago I learned of my friend’s death. I don’t know much except that he killed himself a while ago now. I only found out about it a long time after it had happened, so didn’t get the chance to go to a funeral or anything like that. I’m not even sure of when exactly it did happen.

Daniel Beck was a friend of mine from high school. In 1999 when we were both in Year 12 at Blaxland Highschool together we ventured into our first “tech startup” together: Elliot-Beck Computer Solutions. That was really when I started out in the tech industry for the first time.

Our company never really went anywhere, and I’ve been involved in a number of such collusions over the years that didn’t really go anywhere either. But the first one was with La Becky, and I’m so sad that he’s gone, and worse that I’d fallen out of touch and wasn’t there when he needed me.

To all my friends: please never ever kill yourself. I’ve lost too many friends to suicide. Always call me and let me talk you out of it. It’s not possible to call me too late at night, you call any time (my contact details are kept up-to-date on jj5.net). I don’t care how many years have passed since we’ve spoken. I’ll come and see you. I’ll send money. I’ll help you destroy the evidence. Whatever it takes.

Tonight I found some of the old artwork for the Elliot-Beck Computer Solutions web-site and some photos we took in April 1999 while we were putting our web-site together. I will leave you with it.