Question

Anyone have any ideas why Mail Notify would work on some web and not others? I have been working on getting WebNotify for my hosted TWiki site up and going and, oddly enough, it works fine on a couple webs, but not on others. In my attempts to trace the source of the problem, I have found that the ".changes" file is not recording changes on some webs. However, the revision system does seem to be working, in that multible versions are being recorded and I can look back through the history of changes. Also the WebChanges topics are working OK. I'm not assuming these different functions are linked, but did want to note that they are working.

I have looked through past support topics on this subject and tried a couple of suggestions mentioned. None worked and these did not really seem to relate to my problem anyway.

Any suggestions of where I should look to find the source of this problem?

• TWiki version: Dec. 01
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Linux
• Web browser:
• Client OS:

-- LynnwoodBrown - 02 May 2002

Answer

Check the permissions of the directories under data and of the actual .changes files - they should be 777 and 666 respectively if Apache is running as nobody.

Also, check the Apache error log to see if any scripts have produced errors, and try cd'ing to the twiki/bin directory and running mailnotify from there with the options shown by crontab -l.

-- RichardDonkin - 02 May 2002

Thanks Richard, that did it. I didn't think that the permissions were an issue there but I guess they were. As an aside, I was having trouble changing the permissions of some of the data directories and files which where owned by nobody until I found a workaround which I've described in ExecutingCommandsAsNobody.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 03 May 2002