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[Elwyn Davies <address@concealed>]

Hi.

I am trying to make a new installation for the first time and am running 
into problems persuading my system to execute wwsympa.fcgi as user sympa.

The system is Gentoo/Apache2 with a Virtual Server and mod_fcgi. I am 
using the latest 5.3.4 release.

The wwsympa.fcgi will execute correctly but none of the mechanisms for 
making the process owned by sympa rather than the Apache user appear to 
work.  Any tricks I use seem to result in an Internal Server error.

Logging indicates that the process knows it does not have the correct 
user but is otherwise working.

I have used the C wrapper but this does not help
I tried using an intermediate perl wrapper to satrt the C wrapper but 
that did not help.
I have tried SuexecUserGroup for the Virtual Server but that does not 
help either.

Any suggestions?

BTW I also tried using SQLite but discovered that sympa.pl is buggy for 
SQLite.  In particular it tries to execute mysql SHOW commands on the 
SQLite db during db structure checking.  I thought of trying to modify 
it but in the end went for mysql.

Regards,
Elwyn Davies