Question

I installed a new Wiki, September 01 2001 version.

My machine has qmail and not sendmail. I do have Net::SMTP installed.

I added myself to the WebNotify topic. No email is generated for changes. I don't mind attempting to debug it, but there's no obvious logfiles or other traces left that help. And the installation process does not check for problems like this.

After making the first change suggested in MailNotifyBugs, creating a new user does result in email being sent. But still no WebNotify... The second change is already in the version I have, plus I have perl 5.6.0...

Environment

-- GregLindahl - 21 Nov 2001

Answer

Is the mailnotify script set up in cron correctly? What happens when mailnotify is run manually?

-- NicholasLee - 21 Nov 2001

Ah. So now the bug becomes:

1) The installation instructions don't mention the cronjob, it's only mentioned in the MonitoringSiteActivity section of the docs.

2) If you set up TWiki the way the instructions say, the data files are owned by nobody and are 664. Then the mailnotify script, running as the user, cannot create the mailnotify files. Needless to say, it is not considered proper for nobody to have a cronjob.

-- GregLindahl - 22 Nov 2001

Moved from Codev web to Support web.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Nov 2001