Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

> I am newbie to Sympa mailing list.
> 1.I am trying to install Sympa 2.7b3 on the FreeBSD 3.4
> And I got following error messages:

gencat's compliance differ from one system to another.
It compiles well on Linux RedHat for example.

> [...]
> /usr/bin/gencat cn-big5.cat cn-big5.msg
> gencat: unrecognized escape sequence on line 46
> 2       "\U : %s\n"
> [...]
> gencat: unrecognized escape sequence on line 212
> 6       "q\M Subscribers' list   : %s\n"

Try to identify the wrong characters and recompile.
I'm afraid I can't identify them since I can't see your charset
on my system. You can also contact the author of the .msg files.

> 2.Then I ignored and installed Sympa 2.7b3
> When I restart Apache 1.3.12 webserver with mod_fastcgi-2.24.
> I got following error messages in error_log file:
> 
> [Thu Jun 15 16:32:50 2000] [warn] FastCGI: server
> "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi" (pid 52049) terminated by calling exit with
> status '1'
> 
> [Thu Jun 15 16:32:53 2000] [warn] FastCGI: server
> "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi" restarted (pid 52055)
> Cannot get host name of local machine at 
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/Sys/Syslog.pm line 248
> [...]
> How can I fix it? Please help me to solve it.

Try changing Sympa's 'log_socket_type' conf parameter.

I suggest you have a look at the FAQ :
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/fom-serve/cache/83.html

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Olivier Salaun