Developers of Sympa

[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Oops, sorry, I should also say:

MySQL version 5.1.48

and the output of sympa_wizard.pl --check is:


******* Check perl for SYMPA ********

Checking for PERL version:
-----------------------------
your version of perl is OK (5.010001  >= 5.008)

Checking for REQUIRED modules:
------------------------------------------
perl module          from CPAN       STATUS
-----------          ---------       ------
Archive::Zip         Archive-Zip    OK (1.30   >= 1.05)
CGI                  CGI            OK (3.43   >= 3.35)
DBD::mysql           Msql-Mysql-modulesOK (4.016  >= 4.008)
DBI                  DBI            OK (1.611  >= 1.48)
DB_File              DB_FILE        OK (1.82   >= 1.75)
Digest::MD5          Digest-MD5     OK (2.39   >= 2.00)
Encode               Encode         OK (2.35   >= 1.0)
FCGI                 FCGI           OK (0.71   >= 0.67)
File::Copy::Recursive File-Copy-RecursiveOK (0.38   >= 0.36)
HTML::FormatText     HTML-Format    OK (2.04   >= 1.0)
HTML::StripScripts::Parser HTML-StripScripts-ParserOK (1.03   >= 1.0)
HTML::TreeBuilder    HTML-Tree      OK (3.23   >= 1.0)
IO::Scalar           IO-stringy     OK (2.110  >= 1.0)
LWP                  libwww-per     OK (5.836  >= 1.0)
Locale::TextDomain   libintl-perl   OK (1.20   >= 1.0)
MHonArc::UTF8        MHonArc        OK (2.6.16 >= 2.6.0)
MIME::Base64         MIME-Base64    OK (3.08   >= 3.03)
MIME::Charset        MIME-Charset   OK (1.008  >= 1.006.2)
MIME::EncWords       MIME-EncWords  OK (1.012  >= 1.010)
MIME::Lite::HTML     MIME-Lite-HTML OK (1.23   >= 1.23)
MIME::Tools          MIME-tools     OK (5.428  >= 5.423)
Net::Netmask         Net-Netmask    OK (1.9015 >= 1.9015)
Template             Template-ToolkitOK (2.22   >= 1.0)
Term::ProgressBar    Term-ProgressBarOK (2.09   >= 2.09)
Time::HiRes          Time-HiRes     OK (1.9719 >= 1.29)
URI::Escape          URI-Escape     OK (3.30   >= 1.35)
XML::LibXML          XML-LibXML     OK (1.70   >= 1.0)

Checking for OPTIONAL modules:
------------------------------------------
perl module          from CPAN       STATUS
-----------          ---------       ------
AuthCAS              AuthCAS        was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: CAS Single Sign-On client libraries. Required if 
you configure Sympa to delegate web authentication to a CAS server.
-> Install module AuthCAS ? [n]
Crypt::CipherSaber   CipherSaber    OK (1.00   >= 0.50)
DBD::Oracle          DBD-Oracle     was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: Oracle database driver, required if you connect to 
a Oracle database.
-> Install module DBD::Oracle ? [n]
DBD::Pg              DBD-Pg         was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: PostgreSQL database driver, required if you 
connect to a PostgreSQL database.
-> Prerequisites: postgresql-devel and postgresql-server. postgresql should 
be running for make test to succeed
-> Install module DBD::Pg ? [n]
DBD::SQLite          DBD-SQLite     was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: SQLite database driver, required if you connect to 
a SQLite database.
-> Prerequisites: sqlite-devel. No need to install a server, the SQLite 
server code being provided with the client code.
-> Install module DBD::SQLite ? [n]
DBD::Sybase          DBD-Sybase     was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: Sybase database driver, required if you connect to 
a Sybase database.
-> Install module DBD::Sybase ? [n]
File::NFSLock        File-NFSLock   was not found on this system.
-> Usage of this module: required to perform NFS lock ; see also 
lock_method sympa.conf parameter
-> Install module File::NFSLock ? [n]
IO::Socket::SSL      IO-Socket-SSL  OK (1.33   >= 0.90)
Mail::DKIM           Mail-DKIM      OK (0.38   >= 0.36)
Net::LDAP            perl-ldap      OK (0.4001 >= 0.27)
Net::SMTP            libnet         OK (2.31   >= 1.0)
SOAP::Lite           SOAP-Lite      OK (0.712  >= 0.60)
Text::LineFold       Unicode-LineBreakOK (1.000  >= 0.008)
Text::Wrap           Text-Tabs+Wrap OK (2009.0305 >= 1.0)

On 9/14/2010 4:15 PM, Adam Bernstein wrote:
> Hi Sympa team.  We're almost done with the Sympa 5.3.4 -> 6.1b4 upgrade on
> our development server, but have now run into a bug that brings our whole
> upgrade plan to a total stop -- we cannot run the new Sympa until it's
> fixed. I see it already listed in your bug database (#6979), with no
> progress since it was reported, so I'm a little concerned. What can we do
> to help get it fixed?
>
> Our Apache server is restarted every night for log rotation, which means
> that the first (or actually, second) person to login every day is going to
> be terribly confused when someone else's session pops up in their browser.
> The security implications are also serious.
>
> For what it's worth, I have not yet been able to deliberately reproduce the
> bug with any amount of logging in and out, deleting cookies, restarting
> Apache, or deleting rows from the session_table. And yet, it happens
> reliably every day, after the automated Apache restart around midnight. So
> I'm not sure what the exact trigger conditions are.
>
> Our environment is:
> FreeBSD 8.0
> Apache 2.2.15
> Perl 5.10.1
> Sympa 6.1b4
>
> Looking forward to working with you on this.
>
> thanks,
> adam