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[Fred van Etten <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 17:01 +0900, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 08:51:49 +0100
> "Fred van Etten" (via sympa-users Mailing List) <
> address@concealed> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2021-11-17 at 11:43 +0900, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> > > Hi Fred again,
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:54:47 +0100
> > > "Fred van Etten" (via sympa-users Mailing List) <
> > > address@concealed> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've installed sympa from source following the instructions on
> > > > the
> > > > website. I use systemd on my server and I have all service
> > > > files in
> > > > place to start sympa and wwsympa. All that remains now is to
> > > > get
> > > > LDAP
> > > > working for this to be a success. So, I created
> > > > '$SYSCONFDIR/auth.conf'
> > > > with the same details that work on my old sympa server and it
> > > > fails
> > > > without even a mention in the logs.
> > > > 
> > > > I have configured logs as per instruction in the documentation.
> > > > It
> > > > seems as if the '$SYSCONFDIR/auth.conf' file is ignored
> > > > entirely.
> > > > How
> > > > can I change logging such that I can see more information in
> > > > the
> > > > log
> > > > file?
> > > 
> > > What is the value of SYSCONFDIR? It is defined in
> > > $MODULEDIR/Sympa/Constants.pm.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > -- Soji
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Soji,
> > 
> > The value there is '/usr/local/etc'
> > 
> > I configured Sympa with the following parameters './configure --
> > enable-
> > fhs --prefix=/usr/local --with-confdir=/etc/sympa --without-initdir 
> > --
> > with-unitsdir=/lib/systemd/system'.
> > 
> > And settings in '/etc/sympa/sympa.conf' seem to be honored.
> > 
> > Does this mean I should put my auth.conf in '/usr/local/etc'?
> > 
> > My Sympa installation will be serving one domain only. That's why I
> > thought that 'auth.conf' in SYSCONFDIR should be fine.
> 
> Yes, auth.conf should be placed in SYSCONFDIR, i.e. /usr/local/etc
> with your configurataion.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -- Soji
> 

I'll try that. Perhaps I should file a bug report? As it's unclear to
me why I would have to put the file there while I expect the path to be
the same as that of 'sympa.conf'.