Re: 7.0.0 idx installation note and query about an error message.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:50:43PM -0400, John M. Crawford wrote:
>  I'm creating a test server for ezmlm-idx 7.0.0
> and importing lists and configuration files from
> a 4.0 idx server.
>
> As feedback for the install, my ./ezmlm-test failed with
> ezmlm-archive:        OK
> ezmlm-dispatch:       OK
> dispatch editor:      ezmlm-make: fatal: unable to stat 
> /usr/local/src/ezmlm-idx-7.0.0/lang/default: file does not exist
> envelope for post1 has wrong sender
>
> so I did
>
>  ln -s /usr/local/src/ezmlm-idx-7.0.0/lang/en_US 
> /usr/local/src/ezmlm-idx-7.0.0/lang/default

The proper step is to just

	ln -s en_US /usr/local/src/ezmlm-idx-7.0.0/lang/default

> and it tested fine the next time. Maybe there's am
> improvement for the installation instructions possible

Running 'make setup' as described in step 8 should have installed that
symlink.  Did you run 'make setup'?

> If I retain my old ezmlmrc files, and
> drop my lists directory into the
> proper location,
>
> ezmlm-make -+ ~alias/lists/somelist
>
> on some lists show:
> ezmlm-make: warning: ezmlmrc version mismatch. Behavior may not match docs.

Running ezmlm-make with the old ezmlmrc files will not work properly.

> ezmlm-make: fatal: creating subscriber tables failed: No such file or 
> directory
>
> I'm not sure what the fatal error is telling me, and
> what I should do about it. I'm not running any
> RDBM.

All subscriber databases, including the standard file-based one, are
plugin modules that need to be initialized to work properly.  It is
possible that the use of the old ezmlmrc file broke the use of this
module.

-- 
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>                http://untroubled.org/

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