Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Hi,

address@concealed wrote:

> the scenari problem solved. I found some bad idea in wwsympa:
> 
> 1. wwsympa use perl's glob() which recquire csh. It means, that when you 
> put wwsympa over an
>    apache running in jail, you need to put a shell into the jail. This is a 
> very bad idea.
> 
>     To solve this problem there are some other CPAN module like 
> File::BSDGlob, implementing
>     these functions whithout needed any shell.

Actually we use glob() only once in WWSympa :
        foreach my $tpl (<--ETCBINDIR--/wws_templates/*.tpl>) {
and it can be replaced by an opendir/readdir ; we will modify this for
the beta version.

> 2. wwsympa use directly sendmail to post messages (passwd reminder, ...).
> This means, if I run wwsympa on an apache in a jail, I need to put sendmial 
> into it. 
> This is also a bad idea.
> 
>     It can be corrected 2 ways:
>      - You write wwsympa to use a remote smtp, or
>      - Who run it in a jail, do some extra mta job: one (in my case) 
> sendmail (daemon mode)
>           to solve sympa robot, the second for queueing in the jail for 
> wwsympa and a third
>           outside the jail which queueing out from the splool within the 
> jail.
>       (It's not to hard to solve this with the sendmail)
> 
> with these sympa/wwsympa runs much better and without errors.

WWSympa is already able to make sympa.pl send messages.
I think 'password reminder' is the last message WWSympa sends itself.
We'll change this.

> I hope this workaround will help other peoples running wwsympa in jail.

Thanks for reporting these problems.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités