Topic: Ezmlm error with sme 5.5

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear All
I have just installed a new sme v5.5 server with s/ware RAID1.
I transferred data from a single disk v4.1.2 server using tape backup and then restore from tape.
I did a clean instal of v5.5 and then update1 and Update2 and then installed the ezmlm-web version of mailing list software. The 4 rpms appeared to load correctly etc.
When I attempy to modify an existing mailing list  in the web server manager
ie Modify/Configuration and then Update configuration
I get the following error.

A fatal error has occoured
Something you did caused this script to bail out. The error message we got was
List update failed at /usr/bin/ezmlm-web.cgi line 782.

Please try what you were doing again, checking everything you entered.
If you still find yourself getting this error, please contact the site administrator quoting the error message above.

One of the existing lists appears  to update in spite of the error message, but another list refuses to accept any changes.
I have seen some reference in these forums to similar problems but there was not a specific answer other than a howto on installing.

I have tried this on another test system clean instal of v5.5 plus updates 1&2 and I get a similar error message

Has anyone got ezmlm-web running OK on v5.5 and can anyone help resolve this issue please.
Thanks
Ray Mitchell

[Jens H. Kruuse]

I have just installed ezmlm and have run into the exact same problem. The commands that fail are:

unless($list->update($options)) {
   die "List update failed";
}

I don't know Perl, so I'm very stuck.

/Jens

[Ray Mitchell]

Dear Jens & other ezmlm users

Gordon Rowell has released some updates for ezmlm.
You should upgrade to

FTP=ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/GordonRowell/RPMS/i386/
rpm -Uvh $FTP/ezmlm-web-2.1-06.i386.rpm

and

FTP=ftp://ftp.e-smith.com/pub/e-smith/contrib/GordonRowell/RPMS/noarch/
rpm -Uvh $FTP/e-smith-ezmlm-web-1.1.1-05.noarch.rpm

If you still have problems you may need to change permissions in the ezmlm folder

chown ezmlm:ezmlm ~ezmlm

Thanks to Gordon for this information

Regards
Ray Mitchell

[Jens H. Kruuse]

I upgraded the rpms (had the first already) but that did not help. Possibly because "everything" had already been configured.

But the chown command did the trick!

Thank you, Ray.
And of course thank you, Gordon. Nice work ... again. The support of the e-smith developers is incredible. Now the European Gentlemen Racer's League has a configurable mailing list.

Cheers,
Jens