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["Inger, Slav \(.\)" <address@concealed>]

Olivier, as I said in a later note, the setuid problem appears to have gone 
away after I upgraded the mod_fastcgi module.  Now I'm consistently getting:

"[warn] FastCGI: server "/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi" (pid 21684) terminated 
by calling exit with status '9'", and http://<hostname>/wws is inaccessible.

I'm running the following versions of software (presented as SuSE 8.1 RPMs):

apache-1.3.26-53
apache-devel-1.3.26-53
apache-contrib-1.0.9-461

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier Salaun - CRU [mailto:address@concealed]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 8:39 AM
To: Inger, Slav (.)
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Difficulties getting Sympa to run



I followed the installation guidelines on the website and now having trouble 
getting Sympa to run.  First of all, the "--chuid" option isn't being 
recognized at Sympa startup.  If I remove this option, it seems to start OK.  
The boilerplate /etc/init.d/sympa at 
http://www.open-organizations.org/twiki/pub/Socialtools/StandardSympa/sympa 
specifies this option, which Sympa itself refuses.  So right now I'm starting 
it as root without --chuid option.  
The --chuid option is not a standard Sympa startup option. If you wish to 
make sympa run with a different UID you should set it at the ./configure or 
make time the following way :

./configure --with-user=sympa --with-group=sympa ; make ; make install

Another complication is that I do not want to create a virtual host, rather 
run Sympa interface as the main Apache instance.  Right now Apache is 
configured to invoke wwsympa.fcgi from http://<hostname>/wws

When Sympa starts up, I immediately start seeing the following in 
/var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Fri Jul 30 14:02:56 2004] [warn] FastCGI: server 
"/home/sympa/bin/wwsympa.fcgi" started (pid 30483)
Can't do setuid
  
This problem is mentionned in the FAQ : 
http://www.sympa.org/fom-serve/cache/207.html

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseau des Universités
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