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[John-Paul Robinson <address@concealed>]

Step two revealed the problem (all other tests were passed).

When I ran step two I got the error:

 Unable to access yes

Same result code (5) and similar message as from the sympa.log but this
time with the filename it was trying to append to.

This filename crept in via the --with-sendmail_aliases option.  In an
earlier effort to fix the alias updating I had set this option but not
specified a file name (since I was happy with the default
/etc/mail/sympa_aliases and I just wanted to ensure that this option was
forced on).  But, since there wasn't value given it defaulted to "yes",
so SENDMAIL_ALIASES in the Makefile got set to "yes" and the error
propogated to alias_manager.pl. What's odd is that my /etc/sympa.conf
setting didn't seem to be overriding the alias_manager.pl's value.

Anyway, this is an older version and I didn't follow directions, but I
would have expected that a bare --with-sendmail_aliases would have
defaulted to the sane default and not "yes".  This may be an issue with
"configure" and not sympa.  It may be that you've already fixed this.
It may also be that this is expected behavior.

In any case, thanks for helping me move past this problem. :)

~jpr

On 11/30/2006 02:57 AM, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> Strange, I suggest you check these points :
> 
>     * Double-check that wwsympa is running as 'sympa' user, with ps.
>     * Try running alias_manager.pl from the command line, as user
>       'sympa' : su sympa -c "/home/sympa/bin/alias_manager.pl add
>       yourlist listdomain"
>     * Try to append something in the alias file, as user 'sympa' : su
>       sympa -c echo '' > /etc/mail/sympa-aliases.
>     * Check that the 'sendmail_aliases' sympa.conf parameter points to
>       the right file
> 
> 
> John-Paul Robinson wrote:
>> Ah, the sympa.conf setting wasn't update. :)
>>
>> It works but now I get the list aliases dumped to the user instead of 
>> added to the sympa aliases file.  I thought I had tha part set up right.
>>
>> I'm getting a sympa.log error that sympa can't append to 
>> /etc/mail/syamp-aliases.  This file is owned by sympa and writable.  I run 
>> wwsympa as sympa via fcgi.
>>
>> Is there a permission setting I'm overlooking?  I looked in 
>> alias_manager.pl and it seems to just try to append this file so if it's 
>> writable by the sympa (or whoever owns the process) it should work.  I've 
>> set things so the anyone can write to /etc/mail/sympa_aliases but the list 
>> creation aliases are still dumped to the user and sympa.log still sez 
>>
>> admin::install_aliases : Unable to append to alias file
>>
>> Not sure what I'm missing.
>>   
>