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This is intended primarily for Ed Wilts, but may
be useful for anyone else who is trying to get
Sympa up and running.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
I still haven't touched Sympa itself (the mailing
list part). All this was required just to get
the WWSympa (web interface) working. I'm playing
with actual mailing lists today.
The steps below are for anyone trying to use the
sympa-2.7.3-2mdk. These have already been
discussed with a couple of the Mandrake
packagers, and should be fixed the next time the
package is updated.
Okay, the sympa-2.7.3-2mdk fixed a lot of the bugs from my earlier report,
thank you! Here's what remains. Step-by-step follows..
## 01 ##
rpm -ev sympa
## 02 ##
# Remove any/all remaining traces of
# old Sympa RPMs (quite a few, since
# that first package had a few
# problems..)
## 03 ##
rpm -ivh sympa-2.7.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
## 04 ##
# Had to do all this to get it to
# work on a standard install
# (except the SSL part, but Mandrake
# can at least correct the path to
# SSL, it's set for /usr/local.. by
# default). The log_socket_type was
oh woops, me forgot to fix that.
# the key to making it work right.
pico /etc/sympa.conf
diff /etc/sympa.conf.dist /etc/sympa.conf
26c26
log_socket_type unix
---
log_socket_type inet
86c86
fixed.
#openssl /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl
---
openssl /usr/bin/openssl
see above.
Also, do not forget to change all instances
of my.host and other host/domain names to
your host/domain name.
will not fix, you would have to change that yourself.
## 05 ##
# This config file isn't copied,
# can this be fixed please?
cp /home/sympa/sample/wwsympa.conf /etc
chmod 644 /etc/wwsympa.conf
next mdk release will have it forgot to do it in 3mdk i think.
## 06 ##
# These need to be set to work on a
# somewhat standard Mandrake install,
# without them, I got errors up the
# rear.
pico /etc/wwsympa.conf
diff /home/sympa/sample/wwsympa.conf wwsympa.conf
3c3
use_fast_cgi 1
---
use_fast_cgi 0
done.
22c22
# log_facility LOCAL2
---
log_facility LOCAL1
will not fix, since LOCAL2 is commented out by default and by default if it
cant' find anyting it uses the one from sympa which is LOCAL1. if it doesn't
work that way, let me know.
## 07 ##
# Can this please be added automatically?
# Even if you leave it commented out, WWSympa
# doesn't work unless you have this line in
# your Apache configuration. Inserting it and
# leaving it commented out makes LOTS of sense.
# This *REQUIRES* Apache suexec.
VirtualHost lists.mydomain.net
ServerName lists.mydomain.net
DocumentRoot/home/sympa
Usersympa
Group sympa
ScriptAlias /wws /home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi
/VirtualHost
i can add in a file telling them what to do, since removing some particular
text form a file gonna be quite painful. (%postun)
so unless jmdault wanna include it in apache ..
## 08 ##
# Annoying cleanup, this needs to be fixed.
# The one graphic gets placed in the wrong
# directory and the directory's ownership
# gets changed to sympa.sympa, which is BAD.
mkdir /home/httpd/icons/sympa
chown sympa.sympa /home/httpd/icons/sympa
mv /home/httpd/icons/logo-s.gif /home/httpd/icons/sympa
chown root.root /home/httpd/icons
fixed i think.
After all of this, bringing up my web browser and
hitting http://lists.hostname.com/wws brought me right
to a WWSympa login screen.
good. :)
me logon todya and do a 4mdk, but me gotta go out now, will do so in a couple
of hours.
test the sympa ML and let me know if there is a bad break in functions.
--
Geoff
