[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#863701: sympa: insists that cookie has changed when it hasn't

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 05/30/2017 10:35 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> The configuration file is at /etc/sympa/sympa/sympa.conf for the Debian
>> package,
>> so this hasn't changed?
> 
> Confirmed.
> 
>>
>> What are the permissions of the cookie file?
> 
> 640 owned by sympa:sympa
> 
> I have placed debugging prints into Conf.pm and found that $current is empty right at the beginning of cookie_changed. It seems the `head... command is not evaluated.
> 
> I placed the cookie in the config file directly, which makes it working again.
> 
> -nik
> 

Using a command in the configuration file is really awkward, but we didn't find a better way to do that as Sympa doesn't
support inclusion of other files in the configuration step.

In this case the head command might not be in the path Sympa is seeing. Could you please test if
`/usr/bin/head ...` works for you?

Regards
        Racke

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