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[Cefiar <address@concealed>]

Simon Taylor wrote:
> Hello again Thomas,
>
> > I've done some digging and found that wwsympa.fcgi (sympa's web 
> > interface) uses the Sympa mail.pm module to construct the message 
> > using methods mail_file and sending to construct and place the 
> > message in the "send spool"   That spool looks like its the "queue" 
> > directory which is sympa/spool/msg in my configuration.  From there, 
> > the running sympa.pl process is what monitors the "queue" directory 
> > for messages waiting to be distributed.  Sympa.pl should move the 
> > message to the "distribute" queue where it then adds the recipients 
> > and prepares the message for the outbound mailer (postfix, sendmail, 
> > etc.).
>
> That's very clear. Thanks for digging in to this.
>
> > So, it sounds like the Sympa web interface isn't running as sympa.  
> > The apache process hosting Sympa should be running as user sympa.
> >
> > Going back to the process list, check for sympa-httpd:
>
> My site is setup differently.
>
> I'm running one apache for the site, at is configured to run as user 
> 'apache' group 'apache'
>
> [root@anzaas bin]# ps -ef|grep http
> root     26310     1  0 Nov20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache   29154 26310  0 04:23 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> apache   29155 26310  0 04:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> ...

Note that I seem to remember you might be able to get around this by 
adding the apache user into the sympa group, and the sympa user into the 
apache group, but that was a long time ago. Whether this is a good thing 
security wise is another matter.

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