Question

This is probably a user error on my part, but I can't seem to get the MailerContrib module to work. I assumed that it came with my installation, so I just tried to run it via command as specified in the instructions:

perl -I /<path_to_wiki>/bin mailnotify -q <web_names>

This returned an error:

Can't open perl script "mailnotify": No such file or directory. Use -S to search $PATH for it.

So I thought I needed to reinstall it. I downloaded and untarred the latest archive, then tried to run the install script, which toold me that it was already installed and asked me whether I wanted to use the existing .TGZ file that it found (which I had already unpacked; otherwise, I wouldn't have been running the installer that it contains). When I said "yes," it threw an error:

Got a local archive from /var/www/twiki/MailerContrib.tgz
Compression not available - Install IO::Zlib! at MailerContrib_installer line 625
No data could be read from file at MailerContrib_installer line 625
Could not open tar file /var/www/twiki/MailerContrib.tgz
Failed to unpack archive /var/www/twiki/MailerContrib.tgz
Archive unpacked

So I then ran the installer again, and instead I told it to use the ZIP version of the archive. This seemed to work a bit better, and the installer decompressed the archive.

But when I run the perl script again as instructed, I get the same exact error as before. Someone mentioned on Dev some months ago that the archive installs something in tools/ instead of bin/, and it looks like that is still the case.

If that's the only issue left (please verify?), I'm fine now, as I've copied the script from tools/ to bin/, but knowing this would have saved me quite a bit of time and aggravation.

Environment

-- JohnDeStefano - 20 Oct 2006

Answer

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You should not need to re-install the contrib this is pre-installed.

As documented in MailerContrib, you should run the mailnotify in the twiki/tools directory, as in:

% cd /var/www/twiki/tools
% perl -I /var/www/twiki/bin mailnotify -q

(Fix the path for your environmant). The MailerContrib topic has an example how to put this into a cron job.

-- PeterThoeny - 21 Oct 2006

Thanks. Maybe I'm just not understanding why one would have to CD into tools to run a script from bin, or why the syntax is called out as

perl -I <bin> mailnotify

... when the mail script is in tools, but it's not important in the grand scheme. Thank you.

-- JohnDeStefano - 23 Oct 2006

Code was stripped from my comment above... syntax example is given as: perl -I <bin> mailnotify

-- JohnDeStefano - 23 Oct 2006

LOL stripped out again... forget it! Thanks anyway.

-- JohnDeStefano - 23 Oct 2006

FYI, < needs to be escaped with <, unless in a verbatim block.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Oct 2006

But the MailerContrib Topic, especially the section with Cron shows a different approach which doesnt work for me.

This works:

perl -I /var/www/web7/web/bin mailnotify -q (run directly from tools)

where this dont:

cd /usr/local/twiki && perl -I bin tools/mailnotify -q

On the second it cant find MailerContrib.pm even though it should find it.

-- MarcLogemann - 21 Dec 2007

I ran into this problem as well. I think the MailerContrib documentation example may cause issues on some systems This cryptic entry with relative path switching also caused the "Can't locate setlib.cfg in @INC..." error for me as well

So instead of: 0 0 * * * cd /usr/local/twiki && perl -I bin tools/mailnotify -q

I used full path names and it worked: 0 0 * * * cd /usr/local/twiki/tools/ && perl -I /tusr/local/twiki/bin mailnotify -q

-- GregNeugebauer - 2009-09-30