Question

I have installed MailerContrib. The problem is that everytime I run the mailnotifier command, it send mails about all the topics changed previously, even if the topics are not changed again. Looks like the script remove_obsolete_locks does not remove the locks.

The command does not do anything, as given below:

C:\Twiki\bin>c:\cygwin\bin\perl -wT remove_obsolete_locks

C:\Twiki\bin>

What could be the problem / solution ? Thanks

Environment

-- ChengappaCB - 26 Oct 2005

Answer

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The MailerContrib records the time of it's last run in a file in the data directory. If that file can't be written (e.g. because of permissions) then you would get the effect you describe.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 01 Nov 2005

Thanks for the help CrawfordCurrie. I have changed the permissions of all files and folders under Twiki/data to rwxrwxrwx. But the problem is still not solved. Anything else that may be wrong ? Which is the file which gets written ?

Also, if I use the mailnotify, which is the default notifier, this problem does not arise. Hence I tend to think that it is not a problem with permissions...

-- ChengappaCB - 09 Nov 2005

Sorry for all the trouble. I was running mailnotifier with the 'T' switch like

c:\cygwin\bin\perl -wT mailnotifier -m. Once I removed the 'T', everything is solved.

-- ChengappaCB - 10 Nov 2005