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[address@concealed (Matt Goebel)]

 Our moderators are defined localy, I wonder if it is having some kind 
of timing issue with mariadb or however it is doing it's list config 
caching?

Thanks,
Matt

And now a bit of polka music by "Robert McNicholas"
> 
> We have had similar problems, also running 6.2.14 on RedHat 7.  On the 
> list that was having the problem, I noticed if I clicked refresh 
> repeatedly on the list's home page, the list of moderators would 
> sometimes show all moderators, and sometimes not. The ones that were 
> occasionally missing were defined as part of an "owner_include" 
> paragraph, including members from an LDAP group via a custom data 
> source.  There was a "sync_include_admin" error logged in the sympa log 
> whenever this happened.  You might grep for these in your logs.
> 
> This was the source of our problem.  It turned out we were having 
> problems with our LDAP server and the query for the admins was 
> occasionally timing out. That left the owners occasionally not 
> completely defined.  It seems that query runs on ever owner reference 
> and is not cached.
> 
> Are your moderators defined in an external data source by any chance?
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On 1/5/17 10:29 AM, Matt Goebel wrote:
> >
> >   Running 6.2.14 and haven't had a lot of moderated lists until
> > recently and now sympa seems to be exhibiting odd behavior?
> >
> >   If the moderator clicks on the link included in the
> > sympa generated approval message about 1/2 the time it comes back
> > with a privilege error, and then logs the following ::
> >
> > Jan  5 13:23:17 atari wwsympa[12411]: info 
> > main::check_action_parameters() [robot atari.emich.edu] [session 
> > 89931080474503] [client 164.76.108.11] [user address@concealed] [list 
> > matt-moderated-test] Authorization failed, insufficient privileges
> > Jan  5 13:23:17 atari wwsympa[12411]: err main::#1632 [robot 
> > atari.emich.edu] [session 89931080474503] [client 164.76.108.11] [user 
> > address@concealed] Missing required parameters for action "modindex"
> >
> >   The other half of the time it shows them the message that need to be
> > moderated.  When I mean 1/2 the time I mean when I click on any
> > such link it works 1/2 the time and breaks 1/2 the time, but will
> > work if click on a second or third time?  Some kind of odd timing issue?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
> >
> 


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