Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Thomas Berry wrote:

> Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
>
> > Thomas Berry wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> >
> > > What remains to be done to the configuration to prevent any remind 
> > > message from being sent automatically.
> >
> > Do you have the 'cache_list_config' sympa.conf parameter set to 
> > 'binary_file' ?
> > If so, Sympa processes keep a binary version of list config files 
> > (config.bin) and could still use defaults for list parameters such as 
> > 'remind_task', whereas the 'default_remind_task' parameter has 
> > changed (in sympa.conf) in the meanwhile.
> > Read 
> > http://www.sympa.org/wiki/manual/conf-parameters/part3#cache_list_config 
> > for the drawbacks of using config.bin files.
>
> Does the cache_list_config store settings from sympa.conf, like 
> 'default_task_remind'?

Yes if a parameter uses a default defined in sympa.conf, it may keep the 
defalut value, even though the sympa.conf parameter may have changed in 
the meanwhile.

To force the update of all config.bin files, you should run sympa.pl 
--reload_list_config.