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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Elwyn Davies a écrit :
> 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.
Are the mechanisms you mention those described in this page?
http://www.sympa.org/manual/web-interface#wwsympa.fcgi_access_permissions

> 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?
Make sure you gave the bit "s" to your C wrapper ? (chown u+s g+s 
wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi)
And make sure this file belongs to the Sympa user.

Otherwise, try the "sudo" solution as described in the manual page 
previously mentionned. That's the favoured solution for 5.3.4.
> 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.
Yes, that's a bug we fixed, but in the development version only. You can 
find the patch here: 
http://sourcesup.cru.fr/viewvc/viewvc/trunk/src/Upgrade.pm?r1=4578&r2=4631
> Regards,
> Elwyn Davies

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David Verdin
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