The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Phil Stracchino <address@concealed>]

I have a Sympa instance originally set up as single domain.  Now I find 
that I need to add lists on several new domains as well, so I'm trying 
to convert to virtual-domain configuration.  I've created 
/etc/sympa/$domain for each domain, created 
/etc/sympa/$domain/robot.conf, and moved what I understand to be the 
correct directives to the robot.conf files.  Example contents:


domain          example.com
listmaster      address@concealed,address@concealed
title           Fenian House Mailing Lists
create_list     listmaster
wwsympa_url     https://example.com/sympa
queuebounce     /var/spool/sympa/example.com/qbounce


I've created all the /var/spool/sympa/$domain directories and moved the 
contents of the existing lists where they should go.  I eventually 
figured out that I have to have *one* 'domain' and 'listmaster' in 
sympa.conf AS WELL AS in the robot.conf files.

*Should* each robot.conf have its own queuebounce setting?

Do I need a robot.conf file for the domain that is *also* in sympa.conf?


I'm supposed to create $EXPLDIR/$domain for each domain as well.  Where 
is $EXPLDIR supposed to point to?  I have no idea what that's supposed 
to be.  I've found some references that seem to say that it's 
/home/sympa/expl IF sympa is installed in /home/sympa.  Mine isn't, it's 
installed at system level.  LIBEXECDIR is /usr/libexec/sympa.  Where is 
EXPLDIR in that case?  Is it /var/spool/sympa?

My Apache configuration is updated, correctly I *THINK*, my fastcgi 
service is running, my fcgi socket is present and not stale.  When I try 
to start the wwsympa service, sympa_msg dies telling me it couldn't 
create $SYSCONFDIR/sympa_transport, when it shouldn't *need* to because 
it's already there.


minbar:root:/etc/sympa:202 # sympa_msg.pl -d
info main::_load() Configuration file read, log level set using options: 2
debug2 Sympa::Database::new(Sympa::Database, MySQL)
debug2 Sympa::Database::connect() Connected to Database 
Sympa::DatabaseDriver::MySQL 
<db_host=localhost;db_name=sympa;db_port=3307;db_user=sympa>
err main::#89 > main::_load#329 > Conf::checkfiles_as_root#391 Failed to 
create aliases file $SYSCONFDIR/sympa_transport
err main::#89 > main::_load#330 DIED: Missing files
DIED: Missing files
 at /usr/sbin/sympa_msg.pl line 330.
        main::_load() called at /usr/sbin/sympa_msg.pl line 89


sympa.log:
==> sympa.log <==
May  8 17:45:40 minbar sympa_msg[9022]: info main::_load() Configuration 
file read, log level set using options: 2
May  8 17:45:40 minbar sympa_msg[9022]: debug2 
Sympa::Database::new(Sympa::Database, MySQL)
May  8 17:45:40 minbar sympa_msg[9022]: debug2 
Sympa::Database::connect() Connected to Database 
Sympa::DatabaseDriver::MySQL 
<db_host=localhost;db_name=sympa;db_port=3307;db_user=sympa>
May  8 17:45:40 minbar sympa_msg[9022]: err main::#89 > main::_load#329 
> Conf::checkfiles_as_root#391 Failed to create aliases file 
$SYSCONFDIR/sympa_transport
May  8 17:45:40 minbar sympa_msg[9022]: err main::#89 > main::_load#330 
DIED: Missing files



minbar:root:/etc/sympa:201 # ls -l
total 96
-rw-r--r-- 1 sympa sympa   353 Mar 23 23:51 README
drwxr-xr-x 2 sympa sympa    24 May  8 14:40 caerllewys.net/
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa     1 Oct 22  2020 cookies.history
-rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa   135 Jun  3  2023 data_structure.version
drwxr-xr-x 2 sympa sympa    24 May  8 14:40 fenianhouse.com/
-rw-r--r-- 1 sympa sympa  1408 May  8 16:04 list_aliases.tt2
drwxr-xr-x 2 sympa sympa    24 May  8 14:40 seanfenian.com/
drwxr-xr-x 2 sympa sympa    57 Mar 23 23:51 smrsh/
-rw-r--r-- 1 sympa sympa  3029 May  8 16:06 sympa.conf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa  2964 May  8 15:02 sympa_aliases
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa 32768 May  8 15:09 sympa_aliases.lmdb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa     0 May  8 17:30 sympa_transport
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa  8192 May  8 17:31 sympa_transport.lmdb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa   859 May  8 17:12 transport.sympa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa 12288 May  8 17:13 transport.sympa.lmdb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa   348 May  8 17:06 virtual.sympa
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sympa sympa 12288 May  8 17:13 virtual.sympa.lmdb


(sympa_aliases is the old single-domain sympa aliases file)


Can anyone shed any light upon what is wrong here?


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   Phil Stracchino
   Fenian House Publishing
   address@concealed
   address@concealed
   Landline: +1.603.293.8485
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