Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo has suddenly "died"

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

on 2/9/00 9:36 PM, Malcolm McLeary at mmcleary@xxxxxxx wrote:

> All of my lists on a Qube2 have suddenly started reporting the following ...
> 
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> Can't locate ctime.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/majordomo
> /usr/lib/perl5/mips-linux/5.00404 /usr/lib/perl5
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/mips-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at
> /usr/local/majordomo/resend line 102.
> 554 "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper resend -l staff -r staff staff-list"...
> unknown mailer error 2

The transcript description mentions ctime.pl ... reading the faq for
majordomo;

    ctime.pl and getopts.pl are included in the standard Perl distribution.
    If it can't find it, it means Perl was not installed correctly.
    Re-install Perl. (you may want to take the opportunity to upgrade Perl,
    too) 

> What does this mean?

Something bad must have happened to ctime.pl because I have not touched the
perl installation.

> Why has it started?

Having a look at the suspect;

[root@qube /root]# cd /usr/lib/perl5
[root@qube perl5]# ls -la ctime.pl
?--x--x-wx 22085 30019    2682     1666872882 Nov  3  2032 ctime.pl
[root@qube perl5]#

This does not look good.

A known to be working version produces;

[root /root]# cd /usr/lib/perl5
[root perl5]# ls -la ctime.pl
-r--r--r--   1 root     root         1707 Oct 21  1998 ctime.pl
[root perl5]#

> What is the easiest fix?

Replace ctime.pl with a good one ... fine, but what went wrong with the
original version?

Cheers,  Malcolm

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