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["Mike Burgett" <address@concealed>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:09:09 -0500, Eric Sandquist wrote:

>>Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Unable to read
>>Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Unable to open scenario file
>>topics_visibility., please report to listmaster
>>Jul 23 19:14:12 josiah wwsympa[6138]: internal error : configuration for
>>operation topics_visibility is not yet performed by scenario
>
>The above are because you either have an empty topics.conf or don't
>have the file at all. (in ~<user>/etc)
>
>***  Ok, I created on, but I still need to put something in it...

Sure, but those errors are harmless.

>>Jul 23 19:14:13 josiah wwsympa[6138]: Cannot create
>>/address@concealed :
>>Permission denied
>
>This is, as it says, because you don't have permission to write in
>the directory listed, or because the directory doesn't exist.
>
>***  I don't know how it couldn't have permission... it is owned by
>sympa.sympa, I tried it with 755 and with g+s...  on the whole spool
>directory... still yields this result...  Could this be because wwsympa.fcgi
>is running as another user, ie. messianicgroups?

Sure, the directory should match the uid/gid that sympa is running
under, I think.

Thanks,
Mike