Unless I'm missing someting, I think the changes I made are different than yours, ita. There's only one db_connect per session in my version.

Take a look at gilesSCOLA.php on the test board. The changes I made are surrounded with rows of "@"s.

There's only one db_connect per session in my version.

By session you mean a larger scope than page load?

runs off to check code

Interesting. From the docs ("If a second call is made to mysql_connect() with the same arguments, no new link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of the already opened link will be returned") the code shouldn't make another connection, just because the command is called again once it's open, and it'll be open in the current code because it's not closed until the implicit close at the end of any page.

Which shouldn't be any different in terms of MySQL load from you opening it at the top of the page.

Perhaps the time saving is because it doesn't do the "check and return nothing different"?

Hmmm. Let me run some more benchmarks.

OK, it looks like you're right, ita; your changes are equivalent. I just didn't realize that php was doing something implicit with mysql_connect.

I just had to log in, and I'm subscribed to things I wasn't. I'm ok.

huh.

ETA: never mind.

OK, I'm at the point where I can create mailing lists manually. I used this as a very rough guide. I will document exactly how I did everything.

Right now, I can only create lists from the command-line. (Once the list is created, everything else is accessible from a web page). At some point, we should write an admin-accessible page to create and delete mailing lists, but I don't know how that should be prioritized.

Pretty low, in my opinion. I was creating them myself anyway, although not from the command line.

Good onya!

I think the only remaining "back to normal" task is setting up an ftp account that has access to the archives subdirectory of this domain.

And then we should be good -- anyone remember anything I forgot?

Does someone have the information about the mailing lists that were before the move?

I asked all the list admins to record that info, so hopefully there won't be much to be pulled from the ether.

Other than that, though, the entire zipped site is in the root user directory on this here server, so the mailman config info is there too.

I've got all the information from the Somervillains list. There were also lists for LA, NYC, and Balt.-DC that I recall. I'm sure there were a couple more.