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["Rene 'Lynx' Pfeiffer" <address@concealed>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Olivier Salaun - CRU wrote:

> Rene 'Lynx' Pfeiffer wrote :
> > Yesterday I tried to upgrade from SYMPA 2.4 to SYMPA 2.5.2. I followed 
> > the steps
> > described on the home page that explain how to do the upgrade. After 
> > upgrading I
> > found SYMPA not reacting to commands and not forwarding anything to any
> > list. [...]
> 
> "Queue" program need to run as sympa and therefore requires the Set-UID bit.
> I guess did not install Sympa with root privileges and could not set the 
> proper
> rights on "queue" program. 

Yes, that was the reason. I set the SUID bit and SYMPA resumed normal 
operation
again. I think I copied the binary with the wrong permissions after 
compiling. I
changed it and everything was running fine.

I also found out why SYMPA would stove some messages as BAD into its 
spool/msgs
directory. Apperently the reason was that I tried to access infos via REVIEW 
and
STATS about an empty list without subscribers. As soon as I put an address on
the list it worked.

What are the criteria for SYMPA to mark a mail as BAD and to put it into
spool/msgs?

Best regards,
Rene Pfeiffer

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