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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003 address@concealed wrote:

> I've been struggling to get sympa installed and running. I think I have 
> most of the pieces in place, but I'm now at a point where:
> - the daemons seem to be running and talking to mysql
> - wwsympa seems to run and talk to things
> - I asked wwsympa to send me a password
> - I seem to be able to log in with that password
>
> But...
>
> - once I'm logged in, and I try to do anything (such as set a preference), 
> I'm sent back to a screen saying that I have to log in
> - I've already checked and it seems like sympa is writing cookies to my 
> browser (Mozilla 1.2.1 on Mac OSX)

from the log file:
May 12 15:57:16 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172]
do_login(address@concealed)
May 12 15:57:16 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172] [user
address@concealed] do_serveradmin
May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
address@concealed] do_create_list_request()
May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
address@concealed] do_create_list_request:  no user
May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
address@concealed] do_loginrequest
May 12 17:32:06 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172] do_home

so somehow, wwsympa seems to retain my user name, but not that I'm
alreadyy logged in (what's the difference between a log entry of 'user'
and one of 'alt'?)

>
> So...
>
> - any suggestions?
> - any thoughts re. how to debug what's going on (debug switches, log 
> levels, probes?

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