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Subject: Re: Approval fails
From: Dave Wolfe <dwolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:50:09 -0600 (CST)
To: madavis @ deliberate . com (Marilyn Davis)
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <m0vZipC-0006vbC@rosa> from "Marilyn Davis" at Dec 16, 96 11:35:42 am
Reply-to: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>

[ Marilyn Davis writes: ]
> 
> I'm running 1.93 and when I try to APPROVE using the approve script
> or doing it by hand, majordomo aborts saying:
> 
> MAJORDOMO ABORT
> 
> Failed to open temp file /tmp/resend.14239.out, it exists
> 
> Yes, it does.  But majordomo made it with this operation.
> 
> Can I fix this?

You don't say what system you're running on, but this sounds like the
old broken csh problem. I.e. Perl relies on csh to do file globbing
(wildcard expansion) but on some Linux systems it's broken, so the
wildcards don't get expanded and the temp files don't get deleted. When
the process IDs wrap, Mj dies. One fix is to upgrade to at least 1.94.
Another is to replace your broken csh. I suppose it's also possible your
Perl isn't configured correctly.

-- 
 Dave Wolfe


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