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<LI><A NAME="tex2html428"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00410000000000000000">3.1 Obtaining <I>Sympa</I>, related links</A>
<LI><A NAME="tex2html429"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00420000000000000000">3.2 Prerequisites</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html430"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00421000000000000000">3.2.1 System requirements</A>
<LI><A NAME="tex2html431"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00422000000000000000">3.2.2 Install Berkeley DB (NEWDB)</A>
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  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00423000000000000000">3.2.3 Install PERL and CPAN modules</A>
<LI><A NAME="tex2html433"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00424000000000000000">3.2.4 Required CPAN modules</A>
<LI><A NAME="tex2html434"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00425000000000000000">3.2.5 Create a UNIX user</A>
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<LI><A NAME="tex2html435"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00430000000000000000">3.3 Compilation and installation </A>
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  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00440000000000000000">3.4 Robot aliases</A>
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  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00450000000000000000">3.5 Logs</A>
<LI><A NAME="tex2html439"
  HREF="node4.html#SECTION00460000000000000000">3.6 sympa.pl</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION00400000000000000000">
3. Installing <I>Sympa</I> </A>
</H1>

<P>
<I>Sympa</I> is a program written in PERL. It also calls a short
program written in C for tasks which it would be unreasonable to
perform via an interpreted language.

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00410000000000000000">
3.1 Obtaining <I>Sympa</I>, related links</A>
</H1>

<P>
The <I>Sympa</I> distribution is available from
<A NAME="tex2html10"
  HREF="http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/"><TT>http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/</TT></A>.
All important resources are referenced there:

<P>

<UL>
<LI>sources
</LI>
<LI><A NAME="2885"></A><TT>RELEASE_NOTES</TT>
</LI>
<LI>.rpm and .deb packages for Linux
</LI>
<LI>user mailing list
        (see&nbsp;<A HREF="node2.html#sympa_cru.fr">1.6</A>, page&nbsp;<A HREF="node2.html#sympa_cru.fr"><IMG  ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="crossref.png"></A>)
</LI>
<LI>contributions
</LI>
<LI>...
</LI>
</UL>

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00420000000000000000">
3.2 Prerequisites</A>
</H1>

<P>
<I>Sympa</I> installation and configuration are relatively easy
tasks for experienced UNIX users who have already installed PERL packages.

<P>
Note that most of the installation time will
involve putting in place the prerequisites, if they are not
already on the system. No more than a handful of ancillary tools are needed,
and on recent UNIX systems their installation is normally very
straightforward. We strongly advise you to perform installation steps and
checks in the order listed below; these steps will be explained in
detail in later sections.

<P>

<UL>
<LI>identification of host system characteristics

<P>
</LI>
<LI>installation of DB Berkeley module (already installed on
      most UNIX systems)

<P>
</LI>
<LI>installation of
        <A NAME="tex2html11"
  HREF="http://www.perl.com/CPAN">CPAN (Comprehensive PERL Archive Network)</A>
modules

<P>
</LI>
<LI>creation of a UNIX user

<P>
</LI>
</UL>

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00421000000000000000">
3.2.1 System requirements</A>
</H2>

<P>
You should have a UNIX system that is more or less recent in order
to be able to use <I>Sympa</I>. In particular, it is necessary
that your system have an ANSI C compiler (in other words, your compiler
should support prototypes), as well as XPG4-standard <A NAME="2890"></A>NLS
(Native Language Support, for languages other than English) extensions.

<P>
<I>Sympa</I> has been installed and tested on the following
systems, therefore you should not have any special problems:

<P>

<UL>
<LI>Linux (various distributions)
</LI>
<LI>FreeBSD 2.2.x and 3.x
</LI>
<LI>Digital UNIX 4.x
</LI>
<LI>Solaris 2.5 and 2.6
</LI>
<LI>AIX 4.x
</LI>
<LI>HP-UX 10.20
</LI>
</UL>

<P>
Anyone willing to port it to NT ? ;-)

<P>
If your UNIX system has a <A NAME="2892"></A><TT>gencat</TT> command as well as
<A NAME="2895"></A><TT>catgets(3)</TT> and <A NAME="2898"></A><TT>catopen(3)</TT> functions, it is
likely that it has <A NAME="2901"></A>NLS extensions and that these extensions comply
with the XPG4 specifications.

<P>
Finally, most UNIX systems are now supplied with an ANSI C compiler;
if this is not the case, you can install the <A NAME="2902"></A><TT>gcc</TT> compiler,
which you will find on the nearest GNU site, for example
<A NAME="tex2html12"
  HREF="ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mirrors/gnu/">in France</A>.

<P>
To complete the installation, you should make sure that you have a
sufficiently recent release of the <A NAME="2905"></A><TT>sendmail</TT> MTA, i.e. release
<A NAME="tex2html13"
  HREF="ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mirrors/sendmail-ucb/">8.9.x</A>
or a more recent release. You may also use <A NAME="2908"></A><TT>postfix</TT> or
<A NAME="2911"></A><TT>qmail</TT>.

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00422000000000000000">
3.2.2 Install Berkeley DB (NEWDB)</A>
</H2>

<P>
UNIX systems often include a particularly unsophisticated mechanism to
manage indexed files.  This consists of extensions known as <TT>dbm</TT>
and <TT>ndbm</TT>, which are unable to meet the needs of many more recent
programs, including <I>Sympa</I>, which uses the <A NAME="2915"></A>DB package
initially developed at the University of California in Berkeley,
and which is now maintained by the company <A NAME="tex2html14"
  HREF="http://www.sleepycat.com">Sleepycat software</A>.  Many UNIX  systems
like Linux, FreeBSD or Digital UNIX 4.x have the DB package in the
standard version. If not you should install this tool if you have not 
already done so.

<P>
You can retrieve DB on the
<A NAME="tex2html15"
  HREF="http://www.sleepycat.com/">Sleepycat site</A>,
where you will also find clear installation instructions.

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00423000000000000000">
3.2.3 Install PERL and CPAN modules</A>
</H2>

<P>
To be able to use <I>Sympa</I> you must have release 5.004_03 or later of the
PERL language, as well as several CPAN modules.

<P>
At <TT>make</TT> time, the <A NAME="2917"></A><TT>check_perl_modules.pl</TT> script is run to
check for installed versions of required PERL and CPAN modules. If a CPAN module is
missing or out of date, this script will install it for you. 

<P>
You can also download and install CPAN modules yourself. You will find 
a current release of the PERL interpreter in the nearest CPAN archive. 
If you do not know where to find a nearby site, use the
<A NAME="tex2html16"
  HREF="http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/latest.tar.gz">CPAN multiplexor</A>;
it will find one for you.

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00424000000000000000">
3.2.4 Required CPAN modules</A>
</H2>

<P>
The following CPAN modules required by <I>Sympa</I> are not included in the standard
PERL distribution. We try to keep this list up to date ; if you have any doubts
run the <A NAME="2921"></A><TT>check_perl_modules.pl</TT> script.

<P>

<UL>
<LI>DB_File (v. 1.50 or later)
</LI>
<LI>Msgcat
</LI>
<LI>MD5
</LI>
<LI>MailTools (version 1.13 o later)
</LI>
<LI>MIME-tools (may require IO/Stringy)
</LI>
<LI>MIME-Base64
</LI>
</UL>

<P>
Since release 2, <I>Sympa</I> requires an RDBMS to work properly. It stores 
users' subscriptions and preferences in a database. <I>Sympa</I> is also
able to extract user data from within an external database. 
These features require that you install database-related PERL libraries.
This includes the generic Database interface (DBI) and a Database Driver
for your RDBMS (DBD) :

<P>

<UL>
<LI><B>DBI</B> (DataBase Interface)

<P>
</LI>
<LI><B>DBD</B> (DataBase Driver) related to your RDBMS (e.g.
       Msql-Mysql-modules for MySQL)

<P>
</LI>
</UL>

<P>
If you plan to interface <I>Sympa</I> with an LDAP directory to build
dynamical mailing lists, you need to install PERL LDAP libraries :

<P>

<UL>
<LI><B>Net::LDAP</B> (perlldap).

<P>
</LI>
</UL>

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00425000000000000000">
3.2.5 Create a UNIX user</A>
</H2>

<P>
The final step prior to installing <I>Sympa</I>: create a UNIX user (and
if possible a group) specific to the program. Most of the installation
will be carried out with this account. We suggest that you use the
name <TT>sympa</TT> for both user and group. Note that UID.GID must be
the same as your httpd. If you are running a dedicated httpd server,
this can be sympa.sympa, otherwise it is possible either to define a virtual httpd
server setting UID.GID, or to run <I>Sympa</I> as nobody.nobody. 
This second solution is not advisable because the information managed by <I>Sympa</I> 
will be owned by nobody.

<P>
Numerous files will be located in the <I>Sympa</I> user's login directory.
Throughout the remainder of this documentation we shall refer to this
login directory as <A NAME="2931"></A><TT>~sympa/</TT>.

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00430000000000000000">
3.3 Compilation and installation </A>
</H1>

<P>
Before using <I>Sympa</I>, you must customize the sources in order to
specify a small number of parameters specific to your installation.

<P>
First, extract the sources from the archive file, for example
from the <A NAME="2937"></A><TT>~sympa/</TT> directory: the archive will create a
directory named <A NAME="2942"></A><TT>sympa-2.7/</TT> where all the useful files
and directories will be located. In particular, you will have a
<A NAME="2945"></A><TT>doc/</TT> directory containing this documentation in various
formats; a <A NAME="2948"></A><TT>sample/</TT> directory containing a few examples of
configuration files; an <A NAME="2951"></A><TT>nls/</TT> directory where multi-lingual
messages are stored; and, of course, the <A NAME="2954"></A><TT>src/</TT> directory for the
mail robot and <A NAME="2957"></A><TT>wwsympa</TT> for the web interface.

<P>
Example:

<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<TT># su - 
<BR>$ gzip -dc sympa-2.7.tar.gz | tar xf -

</TT></BLOCKQUOTE>

<P>
<A NAME="makefile"></A>
<P>
Before running <A NAME="2960"></A><TT>make</TT> in the main
directory, you should edit and configure <A NAME="2963"></A><TT>Makefile</TT>,
the first part of which requires customization.
We advise against changing anything located after the STOP
line.

<P>
The <A NAME="2966"></A><TT>Makefile</TT> file contains explanations for the fields,
which you may have to change. They main ones are :

<UL>
<LI>USER and GROUP, the id of daemons.
</LI>
<LI>CONFIG and WWSCONFIG, the location of robot and cgi configurations
</LI>
<LI>DIR, the <I>Sympa</I> home dir
</LI>
<LI>MAILERPROGDIR, the location of queue and bouncequeue programs. If sendmail
is configured to use smrsh (check the mailer prog definition in your sendmail.cf),
queue and bouncequeue need to be installed in /etc/smrsh.  This is probably
the case if you are using redhat 6.X.
</LI>
<LI>SENDMAIL_ALIASES, the sendmail aliases file. This is used by the alias_manager
script.
</LI>
<LI>NEWALIASES, the path to newaliases command.
</LI>
<LI>INITDIR, the directory to contain a SYSV init script (typically /etc.rc.d/init.d/)
</LI>
<LI>DESTDIR, can be set in the main Makefile to install sympa in DESTDIR/DIR
(instead of DIR). This is useful for building RPM and DEB packages.
</LI>
<LI>PERL, SH and CC and GENCAT, respectively perl, sh, cc and gencat locations. 
</LI>
<LI>DARK_COLOR, LIGHT_COLOR, TEXT_COLOR, BG_COLOR, ERROR_COLOR to define wwsympa
RGB colors
</LI>
</UL>

<P>
Once this file has been configured, you need to run the <TT>make;make&nbsp;install</TT> commands.
This generates the binary for the <A NAME="2970"></A><TT>queue</TT> program along with the nls, and inserts
the <I>Sympa</I> and <A NAME="2974"></A><I>WWSympa</I> programs in their final slot, while having propagated
a few parameters into the PERL files, such the access path
to the PERL program. The make command includes the checking of CPAN modules.

<P>
If everything goes smoothly, the <A NAME="2977"></A><TT>~sympa/bin/</TT> directory
will contain various PERL programs as well as the <A NAME="2982"></A><TT>queue</TT>
binary.  You will remark that this binary has the <A NAME="343"></A> <I>set-uid-on-exec</I> bit (owner is the <TT>sympa</TT>
user): this is deliberate, and indispensable if <I>Sympa</I> is to run correctly.

<P>

<H2><A NAME="SECTION00431000000000000000">
3.3.1 Choosing directory locations</A>
</H2>

<P>
All directories are defined in the <A NAME="2986"></A><TT>/etc/sympa.conf</TT> file, which
is read by <I>Sympa</I> at runtime. If no <A NAME="2990"></A><TT>sympa.conf</TT> file
was found during installation, a sample one will be created.
For the default organization of directories, please refer to <A HREF="node3.html#organization">2.1</A>, 
page&nbsp;<A HREF="node3.html#organization"><IMG  ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="crossref.png"></A>.

<P>
It would, of course, be possible to disperse files and directories to a number of different
locations. However, we recommend storing all the directories and files in  the <TT>sympa</TT>
user's login directory.

<P>
These directories must be created manually now. You can use restrictive
authorizations if you like, since only programs running with the
<TT>sympa</TT> account will need to access them.

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00440000000000000000"></A>
    <A NAME="354"></A>
    <A NAME="355"></A>
<BR>
3.4 Robot aliases
</H1>

<P>
An electronic list manager such as <I>Sympa</I> is built around two processing steps:

<P>

<UL>
<LI>a message sent to a list or to <I>Sympa</I> itself
        (for subscribe, unsubscribe, help messages, etc.) is received
        by the SMTP server (<A NAME="2995"></A><TT>sendmail</TT> or <A NAME="2998"></A><TT>qmail</TT>).
        The SMTP server, on reception of this message, runs the
        <A NAME="3001"></A><TT>queue</TT> program (supplied in this package) to store
        the message in a queue, i.e. in a special directory.

<P>
</LI>
<LI>the <A NAME="3004"></A><TT>sympa.pl</TT> daemon, set in motion at
        system startup, scans the queue. As soon as it
        detects a new message, it processes it and performs the
        requested action (distribution or processing of an
        administrative request).

<P>
</LI>
</UL>

<P>
To separate the processing of administrative requests (subscription,
unsubscription, help requests, etc.) from the processing of messages destined for mailing
lists, a special mail alias is reserved for administrative requests, so
that <I>Sympa</I> can be permanently accessible to users. The following
lines must therefore be added to the <A NAME="3008"></A><TT>sendmail</TT> alias file
(often <A NAME="3011"></A><TT>/etc/aliases</TT>):

<P><PRE>
sympa:             "| /home/sympa/bin/queue sympa"
listmaster: 	   "| /home/sympa/bin/queue listmaster"
bounce+*:          "| /home/sympa/bin/bouncequeue sympa"
sympa-request:     postmaster
sympa-owner:       postmaster
</PRE>

<P>
<TT>sympa-request</TT> should be the address of the robot
<A NAME="3015"></A>administrator, i.e. a person who looks after
<I>Sympa</I> (here <TT>postmaster&#64;cru.fr</TT>).

<P>
<TT>sympa-owner</TT> is the return address for <I>Sympa</I> error
messages.

<P>
The alias bounce+* is dedicated to collect bounces. It is useful
only if at least one list uses <TT> welcome_return_path unique </TT> or
<TT> remind_return_path unique</TT>.
Don't forget to run <A NAME="3021"></A><TT>newaliases</TT> after any change to
the <A NAME="3024"></A><TT>/etc/aliases</TT> file!

<P>
Note: aliases based on <TT>listserv</TT> (in addition to those
based on <TT>sympa</TT>) can be added for the benefit of users
accustomed to the <TT>listserv</TT> and <TT>majordomo</TT> names.
For example:

<P><PRE>
listserv:          sympa
listserv-request:  sympa-request
majordomo:         sympa
listserv-owner:    sympa-owner
</PRE>

<P>
Note: it will also be necessary to add entries in this alias file
when lists are created (see list creation section, <A HREF="node10.html#list-aliases">9.1</A>,
page&nbsp;<A HREF="node10.html#list-aliases"><IMG  ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="crossref.png"></A>).

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00450000000000000000">
3.5 Logs</A>
</H1>

<P>
<I>Sympa</I> keeps a trace of each of its procedures in its log file.
However, this requires configuration of the <A NAME="3032"></A><TT>syslogd</TT>
daemon.  By default <I>Sympa</I> wil use the <TT>local1</TT> facility
(<A NAME="3036"></A><TT>syslog</TT> parameter in <A NAME="3039"></A><TT>sympa.conf</TT>).
WWSympa's logging behaviour is defined by the <A NAME="3042"></A><TT>log_facility</TT>
parameter in <A NAME="3045"></A><TT>wwsympa.conf</TT> (by default the same facility as <I>Sympa</I>).
<BR>
To this end, a line must be added in the <A NAME="3049"></A><TT>syslogd</TT> configuration file (<A NAME="3052"></A><TT>/etc/syslog.conf</TT>). For example:

<P><PRE>
local1.*       /var/log/sympa
</PRE>

<P>
Then reload <A NAME="3055"></A><TT>syslogd</TT>.

<P>
Depending on your platform, your syslog daemon may use either
a UDP or a UNIX socket. <I>Sympa</I>'s default is to use a UNIX socket;
you may change this behavior by editing <A NAME="3059"></A><TT>sympa.conf</TT>'s
<A NAME="3062"></A><TT>log_socket_type</TT> parameter (<A HREF="node5.html#par-log-socket-type">4.3.2</A>,
page&nbsp;<A HREF="node5.html#par-log-socket-type"><IMG  ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="1" ALT="[*]" SRC="crossref.png"></A>).

<P>

<H1><A NAME="SECTION00460000000000000000"></A>
<A NAME="sympa.pl"></A>
<BR>
3.6 sympa.pl
</H1>

<P>
Once the files are configured, all that remains is to start <I>Sympa</I>.
At startup, <A NAME="3066"></A><TT>sympa.pl</TT> will change its UID to sympa (as defined in <A NAME="3069"></A><TT>Makefile</TT>).
To do this, add the following sequence or its equivalent in your
<A NAME="3072"></A><TT>/etc/rc.local</TT>:

<P><PRE>
~sympa/bin/sympa.pl
~sympa/bin/archived.pl
~sympa/bin/bounced.pl
</PRE>

<P>
<A NAME="3075"></A><TT>sympa.pl</TT> recognizes the following command line arguments:

<P>

<UL>
<LI>-debug | -d 

<P>
Sets <I>Sympa</I> in debug mode and keeps it attached to the terminal. 
  Debugging information is output to STDERR, along with standard log
  information. Each function call is traced. Useful while reporting
  a bug.

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-config | -f <I>config_file</I>

<P>
Forces <I>Sympa</I> to use an alternative configuration file. Default behavior is
  to use the configuration file as defined in the Makefile ($CONFIG).

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-mail | -m 

<P>
<I>Sympa</I> will log calls to sendmail, including recipients. Useful for
  keeping track of each mail sent (log files may grow faster though).

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-lang | -l <I>catalog</I>

<P>
Set this option to use a language catalog for <I>Sympa</I>. 
  The corresponding catalog file must be located in <A NAME="3082"></A><TT>~sympa/nls</TT>
  directory. 

<P>
For example, with the <A NAME="3087"></A><TT>fr.cat</TT> catalog:

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-keepcopy | -k <I>recipient_directory</I>

<P>
This option tells Sympa to keep a copy of every incoming message,
  instead of deleting them. <I>recipient_directory</I> is the directory
  to store messages.

<P><PRE>
/home/sympa/bin/sympa.pl
</PRE>

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-dump <I>listname | ALL</I>

<P>
Dumps subscribers of a list or all lists. Subscribers are dumped
  in <A NAME="3090"></A><TT>subscribers.db.dump</TT>.

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-import <I>listname</I>

<P>
Import subscribers in the <I>listname</I> list. Data are read from STDIN.

<P>
</LI>
<LI>-lowercase 

<P>
Lowercases e-mail addresses in database.

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Print usage of sympa.pl.

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Print current version of <I>Sympa</I>.

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