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[Zhang Qu <address@concealed>]

Hi

  Finally after several failed attempts of installing Sympa on Redhat
  8.0 and Debian 3.0, I successfully make it work on Redhat 7.3 with
  Mysql.

  It seems Redhat 7.3 (or 7.X) is the favorite flatform for Sympa,
  everything matches quite well with its documentation . But still
  something missing in the manual (V3.4.3.1), without these extra steps, it 
would not work on
  Redhat 7.3, when you do not put any parameters for "./configure"

  Here is a list of stuffs missing in Sympa manual, hope it helpful
  for Sympa newbies

  1. update your system before you install Sympa, this can be down by
  "up2date" provided by Redhat

  2. Install perl-suidperl package before you install sympa. It can be found 
here
  
ftp://ftp.cru.fr/pub/linux/redhat/linux/7.3/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/perl-suidperl-5.6.1-34.99.6.i386.rpm

  or from Redhat

  3. After putting those sympa aliases into main sendmail aliases
  file,(/etc/aliases), you also need to make 2 symbol links under
  /etc/smrsh in order to make sendmail forward your mail to a program

cd /etc/smrsh
ln -s /home/sympa/bin/bouncequeue bouncequeue 
ln -s /home/sympa/bin/queue queue  

  4. generate an empty file under /etc/mail named sympa_aliases
  cd /etc/mail
  touch sympa_aliases
  chown sympa sympa_aliases

  5. change permission for some program under /home/sympa/bin
chmod 04711 alias_manager.pl
chmod 04711 alias_wrapper
chown root alias_manager.pl
chown root alias_wrapper

 Otherwise sympa system can not execute "newaliases" after you create
 a new list.

 
My environment is
Redhat 7.3 keneral 2.4.18-27.7.
perl 5.6.1,CPAN 1.70
Apache/1.3.27 perl/1.26

I am not sure whether these extra step valid for all fresh installation, but 
if they are necessary for a
common configured redhat 7.3 system, it maybe a good idea to add them into 
manual officially.

Cheers


Zhang