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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

Hello,

this service is optional. You don't worry about it.

Regards
  Racke


On 21/02/2025 00:03, Joe Meslovich wrote:
> As far as I know the SOAP service is an API interface.
>
> https://www.sympa.community/manual/customize/soap-api.html 
> <https://www.sympa.community/manual/customize/soap-api.html>
>
> I'm not personally familiar enough with it to know if it is a necessary 
> element of Sympa or not.
>
>
>         
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>         
>
> *Joseph Meslovich
> */Network Administrator & IT Security Officer
> /Information Technology Center
> Bridgewater College
> Phone: 540-828-5343 | bridgewater.edu <http://www.bridgewater.edu/>
>
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> *From:* Ralph Ballier <address@concealed>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:30 PM
> *To:* Joe Meslovich <address@concealed>
> *Cc:* En <address@concealed>
> *Subject:* Re: [en@sympa] Questions about daemons
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> I have now installed and enabled all the services you listed below under 
> /etc/systemd/system.
>
> Only one service is still missing: sympasoap.service. I don't have that one. 
> Instead, I have here: sympasoap-multiwatch.servicein, 
> sympasoap-multiwatch.socketin, and sympasoap-spawn-fcgi.servicein.
>
> What is sympasoap required for, and what happens if it is not activated?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ralph
>
> Am 19.02.2025 22:58, schrieb Joe Meslovich:
>
> > That makes sense.  The section in the manual named "Automate Startup" only 
> > references the main sympa.service.  On my Rocky system installed from a package I have 
> > the following services running:
> >
> >
> > sympa-archive.service
> > sympa-bounce.service
> > sympa-outgoing.service
> > sympa-task.service
> > sympa.service
> > sympasoap.service
> > wwwsympa.service
> >
> >
> > So I'm not certain where those systemd files would come from in the source.  
> > You may want to hunt for them in the source code and see what you do or don't 
> > have running.
> >
> >
> >         
> >
> >         
> >
> > *Joseph Meslovich
> > */Network Administrator & IT Security Officer
> > /Information Technology Center
> > Bridgewater College
> > Phone: 540-828-5343 | bridgewater.edu <http://www.bridgewater.edu/>
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Ralph Ballier <address@concealed>
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2025 4:47 PM
> > *To:* Joe Meslovich <address@concealed>
> > *Cc:* En <address@concealed>
> > *Subject:* Re: [en@sympa] Questions about daemons
> >
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > thank you very much for the quick response.
> >
> > I installed from source because my Ubuntu distribution only came with an 
> > older version of Sympa.
> >
> > By the way, I proceeded as described here. But perhaps I overlooked 
> > something? This has happened before.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> > Am 19.02.2025 22:28, schrieb Joe Meslovich:
> >
> >     We run Sympa on Rocky Linux 9 and there is just a systemd service for 
> > archiving, and I don't recall ever having to do anything specifically to add 
> > or enable it.
> >
> >     [root@lists01 srv-joe]# systemctl status sympa-archive.service
> >     ● sympa-archive.service - Sympa mailing list manager (archiving)
> >          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sympa-archive.service; 
> > static)
> >          Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-02-06 11:42:30 EST; 1 week 6 
> > days >
> >         Process: 3102 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/archived.pl (code=exited, 
> > status=0/SUCCES>
> >        Main PID: 3784 (archived.pl)
> >           Tasks: 1 (limit: 48464)
> >          Memory: 107.5M
> >             CPU: 52.465s
> >          CGroup: /system.slice/sympa-archive.service
> >                  └─3784 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/archived.pl
> >
> >     Did you install from a pre-built package or did you install by some other 
> > means?
> >
> >         
> >
> >         
> >
> >     *Joseph Meslovich
> >     */Network Administrator & IT Security Officer
> >     /Information Technology Center
> >     Bridgewater College
> >     Phone: 540-828-5343 | bridgewater.edu <http://www.bridgewater.edu/>
> >
> >
> >
> >     
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >     *From:* address@concealed <address@concealed> on behalf of 
> > Ralph Ballier <address@concealed>
> >     *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2025 4:04 PM
> >     *To:* En <address@concealed>
> >     *Subject:* [en@sympa] Questions about daemons
> >
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I have the following question: I have noticed that no archives are being 
> > created, even though archiving is enabled in the web interface.
> >
> >     After some searching, I discovered that the archived.pl daemon is not 
> > running. Once I started it from the command line, an archive was created.
> >
> >     This leads me to the question: why was it not running? What is the 
> > concept behind starting it? I haven't read anything about it. Do I need to 
> > create a unit in systemd myself?
> >
> >     And what about the other daemons: bounced, bulk, sympa_automatic, 
> > sympa_msg, and task_manager?
> >
> >     Best regards
> >     Ralph


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