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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Careful: I wanted to write: "--with-confdir=/opt/sympa/etc", not 
"--|with-confdir=|/opt/sympa/etc". Don't where these "|" came from.

David Verdin a écrit :
> OK, I got it: there is an exception in the prefix usage: it's the 
> location of the two main Sympa configuration files: sympa.conf and 
> wwsympa.conf.
> Their default is "/etc", whatever "--prefix" option is set. I guess it 
> is handled this way for historical reasons. See: 
> https://www.sympa.org/manual/installing-sympa#compilation_and_installation 
>
> If you want your config files to be located in /opt/sympa/etc, you 
> must use the configuration option: "--|with-confdir=|/opt/sympa/etc". 
> note that this is just for the config files. All the other paths will 
> be set according to the "--prefix" option.
>
> Regards,
>
> Miles Scruggs a écrit :
> > Here is my output from running sympa after the steps you described:
> >
> >  /opt/sympa/bin/sympa.pl -d
> > load: Unable to open /etc/sympa.conf: No such file or directory
> > List::send_notify_to_listmaster() List::send_notify_to_listmaster() : 
> > missing incoming parameter "$robot"
> > Log::fatal_err() Unable to send notify 'sympa died' to listmaster
> > Configuration file /etc/sympa.conf has errors.
> >
> > I'm really confused as to why it is looking in /etc when I 
> > specifically pointed it to /opt/sympa with --prefix
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Miles Scruggs
> > Wide Ideas | Operations | address@concealed | 509.525.6522 
> > ext 4880
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:12 AM, David Verdin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After: "configure; make; make install", you can run your Sympa 
> > > server. Nothing else need to be done, if it is a plain install and 
> > > not an upgrade.
> > > You will nedd to ensure your MTA and web server are set up to work 
> > > with Sympa.
> > > After that, you whould be able to use the startup script located in 
> > > /home/sympa/init/sympa (to be copied into your /etc/init.d directory).
> > >
> > > If it doesn't work, just try to launch /home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl 
> > > (with an optional '-d' option which will increase the log level and 
> > > keep the script in foreground) and send use the logs.
> > >
> > > What install script are you talking about?
> > > How do you know it tries to look for /etc/sympa.conf? Could you 
> > > please provide some logs?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Miles Scruggs a écrit :
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having issues installing 5.4.  Based off the documentation I'm 
> > > > a little lost as to what I do after:
> > > >
> > > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/sympa/
> > > > make
> > > > make install
> > > >
> > > > docs are a little sketchy about an install script, but when I run 
> > > > it, it tries to look for /etc/sympa.conf which doesn't make any 
> > > > sense because of my --prefix
> > > >
> > > > Cheers
> > > >
> > > > Miles
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Verdin
> > > Comité réseau des universités

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