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hi!

i was expected an doexpire.php and subscriptions.php, in state of them i found an *.pl file in the cronsubdir.

if i execute the doexpire.pl:
Can't locate w3ttheme.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /www/rainbow/dbb/cron /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 .) at ./doexpire.pl line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./doexpire.pl line 10.

if i try to run subscriptions.pl it seems to me that it does not send any submessages to me.

any ideas ?

bug or humanfault myself ?

thanks for answering!

greetings

christian


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Chris
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Hi Steger,

The subscriptions and doexpire need to be Perl scripts so they can run as a cron job. Although I didn't expect them to be php files, I thought the instructions for setting them up were a bit lax, particularly for the novice wwwthreads user.

Here is what you can do to make them work:

1) I put doexpire.pl, subscriptions.pl, Mailer.pm, w3t.pm, w3tvars.pm and the languages subdirectory all in the same directory on my server. I suggest a directory outside of your normal 'web' directory. Only your system needs to see these files, nobody from the web needs to get to them.

2) Edit w3tvars.pm and set the parameters appropriately. The $config{'path'} is the full path name of the directory in which these files reside, not your php files.

3) Edit subscriptions.pl and doexpire.pl and change the unshift(@INC at the top to the same directory you set $config{'path'} to. This isn't specifically necessary but it is a liitle clearer what is going on.

4) Enter this command to make them executable: chmod 755 *.pl

5) Verify they work properly

6) Setup crontab to run them automatically.

That ought to do it! Good luck.