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["GSLT Systems Administrator" <address@concealed>]

hi all!

just installed sympa on our solaris 8 system, had a bit of hassle
getting it up an running because i wanted to have the robot aliases
file separate from /etc/aliases. it's not something wrong with sympa
of course, but i couldn't get postfix to read that
/etc/mail/listaliases file i created with the mailing lists aliases. i
did add this line

alias_database = dbm:/etc/aliases, dbm:/etc/mail/listaliases

to my main.cf. my question --anyone on the sympa list that has done
this postfix and sympa connection, that could give me a tip or refer
to any documentation on how to go about this.

yours,
/robert

ps. by the way i'll attach a slightly modified init-file for sympa
running under solaris. ds.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Author: Josep Roman, Jun 2000
#         Robert Andersson, Oct 2001
# Descr : Start/Stop Sympa Mailing List server
# Ver   : 3.2.1

PIDFILE1="/home/sympa/sympa.pid"
PIDFILE2="/home/sympa/expl/archived.pid"
PIDFILE3="/home/sympa/expl/bounced.pid"
PGREP="/usr/bin/pgrep"
HEAD="/usr/bin/head"
XARGS="/usr/bin/xargs"
KILL="/usr/bin/kill"

if [ ! -f /users/gslt/sympa/bin/sympa.pl ]
then
        echo Sympa daemon not found!
        exit 1
fi

killproc() {
   _procname=$1
   _signal=$2
   ${PGREP} ${_procname} | ${HEAD} -1 | ${XARGS} -t -I {} ${KILL} -${_signal} 
{}
}

#
# Start/stop the process required for the Sympa server (sympa)
#

case "$1" in
        'start')
                if [ -x /users/gslt/sympa/bin/sympa.pl ]
                then
                        echo "Starting the Sympa daemons ... \c"
                        su sympa -c /users/gslt/sympa/bin/sympa.pl
                        su sympa -c /users/gslt/sympa/bin/archived.pl
                        su sympa -c /users/gslt/sympa/bin/bounced.pl
                fi
                ;;

        'stop')
                echo "Stopping the Sympa daemons ... \c"
                if [  -r $PIDFILE1  -a  ! -z ${PIDFILE1}  ]; then
                    PID=`cat ${PIDFILE1}`
                fi
                if [  ${PID:=0} -gt 1 -a  ! "X$PID" = "X "  ]; then 
                    /usr/bin/kill $PID
                else
                    echo "Unable to read PID file, killing using alternate 
method"
                    killproc sympa.pl TERM
                fi
                if [  -r $PIDFILE2  -a  ! -z ${PIDFILE2}  ]; then
                    PID2=`cat ${PIDFILE2}`
                fi
                if [  ${PID2:=0} -gt 1 -a  ! "X$PID2" = "X "  ]; then 
                    /usr/bin/kill $PID2
                else
                    echo "Unable to read PID file, killing using alternate 
method"
                    killproc archived.pl TERM
                fi
                if [  -r $PIDFILE3  -a  ! -z ${PIDFILE3}  ]; then
                    PID3=`cat ${PIDFILE3}`
                fi
                if [  ${PID3:=0} -gt 1 -a  ! "X$PID3" = "X "  ]; then 
                    /usr/bin/kill $PID3
                else
                    echo "Unable to read PID file, killing using alternate 
method"
                    killproc bounced.pl TERM
                fi
                echo "Done!"
                ;;

        *)
                echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/sympa { start | stop }"
                ;;

esac