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[Rajat <address@concealed>]

Hi Oliver,

i appended the following code below line no. 3241 in
the wwsympa.fcgi for getting the aliases and recomiled
and installed

***************************************************
open(FILE, ">/home/sympa/list.aliases");

----> { print FILE "";}
#here all the code which prints $param->{'aliases'}

close(FILE);
***************************************************

and made a crontab entry to append these aliases in
the /etc/aliases and then run the 'newaliases' command
 .. it works!!!!!!
:)

but i have a few queries .. 

1.) what i want is on the home page instead of "Send
me a password" i need a sign on page for making a user
login entry in the user_table of sympa database ????


2.) also my postings to the mailing list are not
working .. i do'nt know y ... 
i start the daemons from the sympa login as
$./bin/sympa.pl &
$./bin/archived.pl &
$./bin/bounced.pl &

but they all die out :(
is this the coz for my postings not delivered ...???
when i subscribe to any mailing list via wwsympa the
password mail gets delivered successfully that means
the command line mail delivery agent for qmail which
is /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject is working .. so what
seems to be the problem ...  ?????

3.) it was not difficult to figure out the aliases
code appendig .. but can u please help me out where in
the src code should i append the ldap authentication
code ... i can write that module .... but i do'nt
understand the src code tree of sympa ....
so that i have ready users who are already in my LDAP
database to be part of the sympa user base .. and they
can carry on with their subscriptions from their
logins and can even create mailing lists....


--- Olivier Salaun <address@concealed> wrote:
> Rajat wrote:
> 
> > 1.) i had supplied the password which i have
> entered
> > in the ldap entry for that user ... which is
> encrypted
> > of type {crypt}
> > 
> > hmmm .. is it necessary that the ldap user has to
> be
> > in my postgres database too ?????
> 
> Currently Yes.
> We plan to allow LDAP-based authentication that will
> work the following
> way :
> 
>       Sympa's config file will define domains and
> associated LDAP servers.
>       If a user is within the doamin, then sympa should
> query the LDAP server
>       to check the passwork. If no LDAP server is
> defined, then sympa
>       would use its own database.
> 
> We should do this in a few months time, before
> Sympa' presentation at
> ED-Media
> conference (http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/) next
> june.
> 
> > 2.) so if the subscription is closed in case of
> > include_ldap then .. the above pt. should work !!!
> > 
> > on second thoughts what does the documentation
> mean by
> > sayin that the subscribers are extracted from the
> ldap
> > and populated in the database
> 
> Populated ?!?
> 
> > .. and ttl is the parameter to define the delay
> time in doin so .. an u
> > help me ion figuring this one ?????
> 
> <ttl> seconds after the subscribers have been loaded
> by sympa/wwsympa,
> every data sources (include_xxx) will be reloaded to
> build the
> subscribers
> list.
> 
> > 3.)
> > > We will rather introduce a new parameter in
> > > wwsympa.conf,
> > >       install_list_aliases    myprog.pl
> > 
> > when will it be possible to use this parameter ..
> ?
> > meanwhile do u think it is possible to do so ..
> any
> > way around it .. i can get the aliases ... the
> code
> > which generates the web page with the aliases ...
> if i
> > could know .. i can add lines to output the data
> in a
> > text file ... u know till the next release ..
> 
> I am afraid we won't have time to code it untill 1
> or 2 weeks time.
> 
> > 4.) ok cool ... so i can safely ignore this till
> the
> > next release ...
> > 
> > Also how can i contribute in this development
> project, in terms of coding etc. ?
> 
> I don't know what is your usage of Sympa, what can
> profit you and sympa
> users comunauty. 
> 
> You could probably contribute to translation of
> WWSympa unless your
> mother tongue
> is english.
> 
> thanks
> 
> --
> Olivier Salaün
> Comité Réseaux des Universités


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