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[Michelle Murrain <address@concealed>]

I decided that because of my extreme troubles getting sympa to work, 
that I would start from scratch. I thought that it might be useful to 
start with the debian packages first, since that seemed to help the 
first time.

I'm doing this on two servers at once. Both debian testing (sarge), 
both using 3.3.3-3.3.4b.5-1

I've decided that I must simply be cursed. I can't get sympa to 
configure on either box, for two separate reasons.

box 1: I get the following error:

Setting up sympa (3.3.3-3.3.4b.5-1) ...
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in': 
No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I did some digging, and /etc/sympa/sympa.conf-smime.in is a file that 
should be in the package itself. I have emailed the package 
maintainer in case it's a bug.

Box 2:

it can't connect to my database.

I'm using postgresql. I created the database sympa, and a user sympa. 
No passwords to access the database. I go through the configuration, 
and it says:
I was not able to configure your database because I could not
connect to the database server.
Please check that your properly installed and configured
the database server. You also may have entered wrong parameters at
configure time.

I have tried various parameters, to no avail. If I could figure out 
how it was trying to connect to the database, maybe I could 
troubleshoot it.

Suggestions?
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.Michelle

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