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4. Running Sympa


4.1 sympa.pl

sympa.pl is the main daemon ; it processes mail commands and is in charge of messages distribution.

sympa.pl recognizes the following command line arguments:


4.2 INIT script

The make install step should have installed a sysV init script in your /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory (you can change this at configure time with the -with-initdir option). You should edit your runlevels to make sure Sympa starts after Apache and MySQL. Note that MySQL should also start before Apache because of wwsympa.fcgi.

This script starts these deamons : sympa.pl, task_manager.pl, archived.pl and bounced.pl.


4.3 Stopping Sympa and signals


4.3.0.1 kill -TERM

When this signal is sent to sympa.pl (kill -TERM), the daemon is stopped ending message distribution in progress and this can be long (for big lists). If kill -TERM is used, sympa.pl will stop immediatly whatever a distribution message is in progress. In this case, when sympa.pl restart, message will distributed many times.


4.3.0.2 kill -HUP

When this signal is sent to sympa.pl (kill -HUP), it switchs of the -mail logging option and continues current task.


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