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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

I don't think it's a RedHat version problem, we are running Sympa on RH 
7.3 ; it works fine.

Did you check access rights on wwsympa.fcgi ?
Did you check Apache log file ?

Kevin McCann wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, but I had already checked that. I am going to
> uninstall sympa, remove the group/user, etc. upgrade to RedHat 8.0 (from
> 7.2) , install any necessary Perl mods, and try the Sympa install again.
> Somebody recently asked about how to do a clean uninstall that removes
> everything sympa-related. I might benefit from the same advice!
>
> I'll let you know if I have any luck. It's actually quite critical that I
> get this going. My organisation intends to do some groupware development
> around Sympa because of its existing features that make it a better choice
> than Mailman (single user/password and easy MySQL implementation are *very*
> attractive, for starters).
>
> Also, if time permits, I hope to add to what archived.pl does with message
> data (insert directly to DB tables), as was discussed yesterday.
>  
>
> > Obviously your wwsympa.fcgi does NOT run as user 'sympa' whereas it should.
> >    
> >
> > If you have perl-suid installed then it might be a problem with wwsympa.fcgi 
> > that could have
> > lost its SetUID bit. It should look like this :
> >
> >    %ls -l /home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi
> >    -rwsr-sr-x    1 sympa    sympa      254215 Mar  7 16:36
> > /home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi*
> >    
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites