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["Christian H. Kuhn" <address@concealed>]

Hi all,

just making a new start with sympa. Tests according 
https://www.sympa.community/manual/install/configure-mail-server-postfix.html. 
Steps 1+2 successful.

When i service sympa start, i find in the logs:

2025-10-12T19:43:04.825550+02:00 bywater bulk[268481]: notice main:: 
Bulk 6.2.76 Started
2025-10-12T19:43:12.520139+02:00 bywater bulk[29476]: err main::#160 > 
Sympa::Spindle::spin#77 > Sympa::Spindle::ProcessOutgoing::_init#75 > 
Sympa::Spindle::ProcessOutgoing::_fork_children#104 > 
Sympa::Process::sync_child#211 The 268481 child exists in the PID file 
but is no longer running. Removing it and notifying listmaster


root@bywater /run/sympa # ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  2 sympa sympa  120 Oct 12 19:43 ./
drwxr-xr-x 40 root  root  1200 Oct 12 19:26 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa sympa    7 Oct 12 19:43 archived.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa sympa    7 Oct 12 19:43 bounced.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa sympa    7 Oct 12 19:43 sympa_msg.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 sympa sympa    7 Oct 12 19:43 task_manager.pid


root@bywater /run/sympa # ps aux|grep bulk
sympa      29476  0.0  0.1 117172 94100 ?        S    Oct11   0:06 
/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bulk.pl
sympa     268481  0.0  0.1  94668 76276 ?        S    19:43   0:00 
/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/sympa/bin/bulk.pl


Amos wrote in 
https://lists.sympa.community/arc/en/2019-10/msg00027.htmlthat he 
successfully made some changes to the unit files for the Sympa services, 
but not which changes.

What’s wrong here?

TIA
QNo