Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

> Siao Chiun wrote:

> I am very new with sympa and have just installed sympa. When i try
> accessing the wwsympa from the brower using the url:
> http://<myhost>/wws, the home page was loaded with the error
> message:'auth failed'.
> 
> This home page kept repeating itself on the browser. When i view the
> source, it is something like this:
 
> Does anyone has any idea what is wrong?
> 
> By the way, does the log get output to /var/log/sympa? I have
> created sympa file in /var/log but no log is written into it.   I have
> the following settings:
> 
> In sympa.conf:
> syslog                          LOCAL1
> log_socket_type         unix
> 
> In syslog.conf:
> local1.*    /var/log/sympa
> 
> In mysympa.conf:
> log_facility     LOCAL2
> 
> Is it right?
> 
> I have spent 2 days trying to get sympa up, still feel that i am very
> far from getting it to work. Any help is really appreciated.

What is your system ?
Did you try running sympa.pl ? Then ?
Did you restart your syslog daemon after changing its config ?
Did you try running WWSympa from the command line ?

I recommend you have a look at the FAQ :
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/fom-serve/cache/72.html
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/fom-serve/cache/83.html

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités