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["Jeremy Turner" <address@concealed>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Murrain [mailto:address@concealed]
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I've been struggling a bit with Sympa set up for a while. I've gotten
> over a few hurdles, but now am stuck again. I've got sympa running,
> with all of the processes going correctly. I've modified my apache
> config file with "ScriptAlias /wws /home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi"
> 
> When I try to start wwwsympa, I get an internal server error. Log
> files just say:
> Premature end of script headers: /home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi
> 
> And nothing more. Nothing in the sympa logs or any other logs gives
> me a clue. I've looked through the docs, but haven't found anything
> that helps.
> 
> apache is running as www-data UID/GID 33, sympa is UID/GID 1011
> 
> System: debian testing (sid) - recently upgraded, but it didn't work
> with woody either
> running most recent version of sympa.

Have you installed sympa from source, or the Debian packages?  Sympa and
WWSympa are in woody (and I assume sid) as wwsympa and sympa.  You also
need to install the libnet-ldap-perl, because it provides some module
required, but for some reason it's not marked as a required dependency.
I got the same error, and that let to this result.  Also, check

> On a related note - anyone have a good startup script? I can make my
> own or modify the one that comes with sympa (which doesn't work for
> me), but I thought if there was a good one out there, that would be
> great.

If you have installed the sympa, wwsympa, and libnet-ldap-perl packages,
there should be /etc/init.d/sympa and /etc/init.d/wwsympa startup
scripts.  This works well for automatically starting up sympa and
wwsympa on startup (the debian packages ask you when you install, IIRC).

I hope this helps!

Jeremy