> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:57:59 -0500
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> >> remember correctly). Anyone feel like
> >> Mandrake-izing this RPM?
> >
> > Well, here is a hint for me to do it. :-)
>
> It doesn't have to be you, I know you're not the
> Sympa maintainer. You're just happen to be the
> really helpful Sympa package updater. =)
>
Well, I ain't gonna let old stuff get into the shiny new Mandrake. :-)
> > Well, for now, I have disabled MHonArc from the
> > sympa package by commenting it out in the
> > configuration file. Before I do anything else,
> > I would like to make sure that Sympa is working
> > as it should be.
>
> That's understandable and acceptable. I did
> install the Red Hat contrib MHonArc and
> uncommented the line. No errors yet, but then I
> don't think I'm up and running yet (see below).
>
> > Don, can you verify that Sympa is working for
> > me? Also, has bad problems in WWSympa been
> > solved? I would be very interested to know the
> > results of your Sympa tests.
>
> Well, WWSympa seems to be working better than the
> mailing list itself at this point. I can't seem
> to get any mail to flow anywhere. I'll be
> playing with it more this evening when I get home
> and I'll be trying to go to the Sympa guys
> directly with my questions, but I may copy cooker
> just to see if there's any Mandrakes out there
> that have seen the problem(s) before.
>
WWSympa is of course the new stuff, I expected to get angry flames and letters.
However, sympa is old stuff, I never changed the compilation procedure of
Sympa. I doubt that this time it would be the nasty $RPM_BUILD_ROOT problem
again though.
> I will say though, WWSympa appears to be awesome.
> Other than a little mangled English and a few
> spots of un-translated French, it rocks. I've
> been able to create a few lists by hand, and then
> subscribe people using WWSympa.
>
This is a good start..!!
> I'm currently using a MySQL database for the user
> list, and it appears to be working flawlessly.
>
> My own concern right now (with WWSympa and Sympa)
> is that the database username and password is
> stored in plain text in the /etc/sympa.conf. I
> tried changing the permissions on it, but that
> caused WWSympa to complain. I think that's an
> Apache suexec problem (I don't think I have it
> running correctly), I'll get back to you on it.
> I'll make sure to include some pretty complete
> instructions.
>
Yes I know. I have noticed this. The problem is that you have root.root perms
for sympa.conf and wwsympa.conf in /etc. Now, if you chmod 600, then of course
sympa will not be able to access it. I can always do chown sympa.sympa and hten
chmod 600, but I don't know if that is very smart or not.
This is a security related issue which I would like to get solved ASAP.
> Along with those instructions, I may write up a
> README to be included with the Mandrake package
> that is a quick step-by-step to creating your
> first mailing list to getting WWSympa running, as
> well as getting the database and everything set
> up. The Sympa docs are good, but seem to jump
> around a lot, and I like a straight-through
> process.
>
Setting up sympa on your own box if you compile from source is not hard,
packaging is a very different thing. :-)
>
> > Still, being that MHonArc would probably be in
> > contribs (assuming that I do a Mandrake RPM for
> > it) I still cannot unable the MHonArc function
> > until it is in main.
>
> Understood.
>
When everything is working you can send another cooker mail to complain
about the lack of MHonArc! One step at a time... sympa is not even working
yet ..
Now that sympa is still not working, can you please try again and test
(and anyone who use sympa on cooker, please do me a favor and test it) ...
How about the logs ? Do they say anything useful?
It's hard for me to test sympa here, since I don't have the know-how and I
don't run a ML myself.
--
Geoff
