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[Ralph Ballier <address@concealed>]

Thanks!

Am 21.02.2025 07:35, schrieb Stefan Hornburg (Racke):
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *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:* 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