Question

Hi, all. Everytime the mailnotify script is run, it sends out a list of all changes that have been made in that web, not just those that have been made since the last run of the mailnotify script. How do I get the mailnotify script to only send out changes made since the last time it was run? I've watched the debug, and see no errors. Here's a sample:

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- Changed topics since 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00: EmailNotify Preferences Forums Introduction 
- Sending mail notification to: sitechanges@lists.theoretic.com
- End TWiki.JabberAdvocacy, mail notification sent
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- Changed topics since 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00: BetterRosters Usability Home 
- Sending mail notification to: sitechanges@lists.theoretic.com
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- Note: Topic list is empty
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- Note: No topics changed since 16 Dec 2002 - 21:25
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- Note: No topics changed since 20 Dec 2002 - 23:40
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- Note: No topics changed since 21 Dec 2002 - 07:58
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• TWiki version: beta dec 10 2002
• Perl version: 5.6.1
• Web server & version: apache (recent)
• Server OS: debian
• Web browser & version:
• Client OS:

-- AdamTheo - 21 Dec 2002

Answer

Check the permissions in each web directory, and also on the .mailnotify file - if this is not created/updated it will cause this behaviour.

-- RichardDonkin - 22 Dec 2002

Just checked, and the .mailnotify file in every web directory in data is 664, as well as owned by "nobody" (well, www-data, actually, since it's a debian system). And the web directories are 775. This doesn't seem to be the problem

-- AdamTheo - 22 Dec 2002

It's debug time. Add some TWiki::writeDebug() statements to see what happens with $prevLastmodify. That variable should get set to the .mailnotify value. The 01 Jan 1970 date indicates that the time is 0.

-- PeterThoeny - 23 Dec 2002

Hmm... odd. When i tested it again today, it was still sending all changes, but then after making a couple of debug changes and running it again, it started to only send out changes made since yesterday, and then when I ran it again it didn't send out any changes (since none had been made in the past half hour). I guess it just needed to run through it a few times to get them out of its system? heh. Well, thanks anyway.

-- AdamTheo - 23 Dec 2002