Hello everbody.
Thanks for all the mail. I will try and provide some useful answers
to the questions.
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From: bill@cutter.lib.umn.edu (Bill Tantzen)
Greg,
What version of Perl are you using? I don't think I have seen that
exact error, but I did see many segmentation faults using majordomo
with Perl 5.0. I simply switched back to 4.036 and it's running just
fine.
Bill T.
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Although I had to reinstall perl on our system, I have only been
using perl4.036
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From: Bryan Curnutt <curnutt@Stoner.COM>
Greg Johnson wrote:
>
> I won't bore you with the horrendous problems that have occurred, but the
> relevant history is this:
Some things it would be _good_ for you to bore us with are:
- what O/S are you running? what version of the O/S?
- what version of majordomo?
- what are the permissions of wrapper? of the directory in
which majordomo is installed? of the list directory and
files?
- did you compile with POSIX or BSD options?
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Oops. I was a little irate when I last wrote, hence my neglect
in some of the essentials...
SunOS 4.1.4
majordomo 1.92
wrapper: -rwsr-sr-x daemon.majordom
/local/majordom/installed: drwxr-sr-x
/local/majordom/lists: drwxr-sr-x
and I compiled with the BSD options.
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> i was getting errors back from lines 53 in majordomo, and found that
> perl had not been installed correctly
> 53: require "ctime.pl" ...
> then the error moved to line 54
Presumably you installed perl correctly to get the error to move (?)
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ahem. yes, i had to reinstall perl.
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> 54: require "majordomo_version.pl" ...
> i don't know if this was right, but eventually i remembered that the
> perl files needed to be with the perl librarys (right?)
Nope. If the .pl files are in the majordomo directory, then
majordomo will find them (... at least if everything else is
installed correctly...).
> so i symlinked
> them into /usr/local/gnu/lib/perl
> ok. no more errors with line numbers. i now alternate (in a seemingly
> random fashion) between
>
> in <full_path>/majordomo ... unknown mailer error x (i don't have a record
> of that one, sorry)
Stupid question: Is perl installed in the place given at the top
of the majordomo file, e.g. if the first line of the majordomo
script is "#!/usr/local/bin/perl" then is perl installed in
/usr/local/bin/perl ?
Does anything show up in the majordomo "Log" file?
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the #! question: perl *is* installed in the pointed to location in the
first line of the majordomo script.
the Log file question: aha. i have never had a log file. anywhere. (that
my beady eyes have been able to see). see below.
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From: Jerry Stachowski <j.stachowski@cablelabs.com>
Hi---
I got the same error when majordomo couldn't write to the log file.
Take Care---
Jerry Stachowski
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hmm. this seems to be a common theme. anyone have ideas why the
log file isn't being created? i thought the permissions were okay.
maybe not?
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wow guys. i have been overwhelmed by your support (this being a job that
i am <obviously?> quite new at) and very thankful for it. if anyone
has anymore ideas, i'd love to hear from you.
cheers,
greg
ps Jonathan Bresler, I will go run the t/TEST tests, and come back
if something appears wrong.
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