Developers of Sympa

[Thomas Berry <address@concealed>]

We're seeing a peculiar problem with our 6.0 release of Sympa running on 
CentOS.

We started getting reports of duplicate digest distributions.  Upon 
further examination (and some playing around with code in sympa.pl that 
controls when SendDigest is called, I have concluded that of the two 
sympa.pl processes, one is running as DAEMON_CREATION, but the other 
does not appear to be running as DAEMON_COMMAND.  Nor, after some 
testing, is it running as DAEMON_MESSAGE, which it should not, because 
we have bulk enabled.

What is interesting is that we have a similarly configured development 
system, and that one is working fine.  I have performed a diff between 
the files in /sympa/home/bin, and the sympa.conf and start script, but 
was unable to find any differences that would explain what is happening.

Currently, both systems should not allow DAEMON_COMMAND to run 
SendDigest, on both systems, we see (in the logs) that sympa (without a 
label) is running SendDigest.  In production, sympa(creation) is also 
running SendDigest.

I can't figure out how the daemon labeling gets initiated.  Maybe 
someone can shed some light on that.

Also, I have looked in the subversion repositor at the latest release of 
sympa.pl and can find nothing that might address this issue.

Thomas Berr