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From: Ethan B. <bur...@ka...> - 2005-10-28 17:15:02
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Imtiaz,
Good work. I remember having to do the "use lib" bit too. Not fun,
but thankfully there aren't many places it has to go. You've definitely
come a bit farther than we did. (I never got it to put the messages in
the queue, and never got the daemon to start up.)
As for your remaining problem, I see that we have suexec support
turned off on your domains. suexec is a cgi processing feature that
makes all CGI scripts work such that they are executed as your user,
instead of the www user. I suspect that turning suexec on for the
domain you're using might take care of it.
Just let us know what domain you're using, and we can give it a whirl.
Worth noting for the list and dev folks, the install we're doing is
without root privileges, as we're doing it to a shared hosting account.
The host has installed all of the required perl modules, of course
minus pgreet itself. Thus the "use lib" and other system username
customizations being necessary.
Cheers,
~Ethan B.
--
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Ethan Burnside - Founding Member
Kattare Internet Services
WWW: http://www.kattare.com
E-mail: bur...@ka...
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Quoting Imtiaz A Khan <kha...@gm...>:
> Here are some of the issues I faced and resolved while setting up
> Pgreet
>
> 1. Once the installation (Install.pl) is complete I ran
> PgreetConftest and recieved an error about missing Pgreet.pm I
> added it by using the following in all cgi/perl scripts in the
> distro:
> * *use lib '/home2/w/weathers/pg/pgreet/lib/'; *
> * here /home2/w/weathers is my home directory and pg is
> the
> directory into which I checked out pgreet from CVSNext
> on
> running the config testI recieved a list of errors for
> datadir, cgidir, tempdir etc. It seems that the
> install.pl
> does not take care of writing a clean pgreet.conf.
> 2. Next on running the config testI recieved a list of errors for
> datadir, cgidir, tempdir etc. It seems that the install.pl
> does
> not take care of writing a clean pgreet.conf.
> * replaced cgi-dir with my value of cgi-dir (some folks
> want
> to use an alternate to cgi-bin for security reasons)
> * the conf dir has an extra /conf at the end remove that
> * the images URL has a pgreet/images by default change that
> to
> where you installed pgreet in my case /ecards/images
> * the temp folder for sessions is /tmp it might not be
> accessible to user accounts change that to a folder in
> your
> home which has rights for Apache to write to (777 would
> be
> great to start with and whittle it down to saner
> permission
> levels after testing)
> * the log folder similarly is /var/log whcih will not work
> for
> some OS platforms (I changed this also to a user
> directory)
>
> 3. on startup pgreet daemon complains of *strict refs in pgreetd
> on
> line 1000*. Not sure what that implies but I commented out use
> strict in pgreetd and it was able to start up.
> 4. Then I got an error with regards to session files. Pgreet was
> unable to create state files. For that the permissions on TEMP
> directory had to be changed
> 5. Now I got *Not found 'pgreet_template.epl'* which is not in
> the
> distribution but is available when you do a CVS checkout. Even
> then it had to be manually copied to the templates folder from
> the
> source folder.
> 6. At this point everything seemed ok I was able to pull it up in
> the
> browser and customize a card and click send. Once that was
> done
> again it all crashed as I started getting these erors in my
> pgreet
> log:
> /Oct 28 00:17:20 pgreetd [19096] shutdown by signal - Error
> getting name to temp file from template pgreet-tmpfile-XXXXXX:
> Parent directory (.) is not writable
> at /home2/w/weathers/bin/pgreetd line 656
> /Am stuck here as now it all shows up etc but since pgreetd is
> dying no card notifications are going out. I tried looking at
> the
> permissions and I guess thats where the problem lies. The
> session
> files are being written by www (the apache user) with
> permission
> 622 and my pgreet daemon is set to run as user weathers.
> Looking
> for the setting where I could maybe change permissions on the
> sessions files so that pgreetd can write to those and process
> them
> (I'm thinking this is it)/
> /
>
> Warm Regards
> Imtiaz
>
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From: Imtiaz A K. <kha...@gm...> - 2005-10-28 07:25:45
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Here are some of the issues I faced and resolved while setting up Pgreet
1. Once the installation (Install.pl) is complete I ran
PgreetConftest and recieved an error about missing Pgreet.pm I
added it by using the following in all cgi/perl scripts in the distro:
* *use lib '/home2/w/weathers/pg/pgreet/lib/'; *
* here /home2/w/weathers is my home directory and pg is the
directory into which I checked out pgreet from CVSNext on
running the config testI recieved a list of errors for
datadir, cgidir, tempdir etc. It seems that the install.pl
does not take care of writing a clean pgreet.conf.
2. Next on running the config testI recieved a list of errors for
datadir, cgidir, tempdir etc. It seems that the install.pl does
not take care of writing a clean pgreet.conf.
* replaced cgi-dir with my value of cgi-dir (some folks want
to use an alternate to cgi-bin for security reasons)
* the conf dir has an extra /conf at the end remove that
* the images URL has a pgreet/images by default change that to
where you installed pgreet in my case /ecards/images
* the temp folder for sessions is /tmp it might not be
accessible to user accounts change that to a folder in your
home which has rights for Apache to write to (777 would be
great to start with and whittle it down to saner permission
levels after testing)
* the log folder similarly is /var/log whcih will not work for
some OS platforms (I changed this also to a user directory)
3. on startup pgreet daemon complains of *strict refs in pgreetd on
line 1000*. Not sure what that implies but I commented out use
strict in pgreetd and it was able to start up.
4. Then I got an error with regards to session files. Pgreet was
unable to create state files. For that the permissions on TEMP
directory had to be changed
5. Now I got *Not found 'pgreet_template.epl'* which is not in the
distribution but is available when you do a CVS checkout. Even
then it had to be manually copied to the templates folder from the
source folder.
6. At this point everything seemed ok I was able to pull it up in the
browser and customize a card and click send. Once that was done
again it all crashed as I started getting these erors in my pgreet
log:
/Oct 28 00:17:20 pgreetd [19096] shutdown by signal - Error
getting name to temp file from template pgreet-tmpfile-XXXXXX:
Parent directory (.) is not writable
at /home2/w/weathers/bin/pgreetd line 656
/Am stuck here as now it all shows up etc but since pgreetd is
dying no card notifications are going out. I tried looking at the
permissions and I guess thats where the problem lies. The session
files are being written by www (the apache user) with permission
622 and my pgreet daemon is set to run as user weathers. Looking
for the setting where I could maybe change permissions on the
sessions files so that pgreetd can write to those and process them
(I'm thinking this is it)/
/
Warm Regards
Imtiaz
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2005-06-06 23:51:23
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, It's official! There were no issues with Penguin Greetings 0.9.9, so that is now the 1.0.0 release. Nothing has been changed but the version numbers. Penguin Greetings is now out of beta and considered stable for production use. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2005-05-09 22:01:36
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.9. This is a release candidate for the 1.0 release. The most important enhancement is support for the embedded Perl environment HTML::Mason in addition to Embperl. Other enhancements include: Localization using Perl's Locale: :Maketext, a collection of general use templates to simplify site building, and scheduling when card categories are displayed during the calendar year. The older ecard sites have received a face-lift, as has the Penguin Greetings information website. To demonstrate the Penguin Greetings Mason environment, a new secondary ecard site has been created: "Savoring the sights of Seattle" <http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi?site=PgSeattle>. The total number of cards in the collection is now 240. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: <ben...@id...> - 2004-05-22 12:33:52
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Dear Open Source developer I am doing a research project on "Fun and Software Development" in which I kindly invite you to participate. You will find the online survey under http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/. The questionnaire consists of 53 questions and you will need about 15 minutes to complete it. With the FASD project (Fun and Software Development) we want to define the motivational significance of fun when software developers decide to engage in Open Source projects. What is special about our research project is that a similar survey is planned with software developers in commercial firms. This procedure allows the immediate comparison between the involved individuals and the conditions of production of these two development models. Thus we hope to obtain substantial new insights to the phenomenon of Open Source Development. With many thanks for your participation, Benno Luthiger PS: The results of the survey will be published under http://www.isu.unizh.ch/fuehrung/blprojects/FASD/. We have set up the mailing list fa...@we... for this study. Please see http://fasd.ethz.ch/qsf/mailinglist_en.html for registration to this mailing list. _______________________________________________________________________ Benno Luthiger Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 8092 Zurich Mail: benno.luthiger(at)id.ethz.ch _______________________________________________________________________ |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2004-04-10 20:58:04
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, Just in time for Easter, the default (main) ecard site for Penguin Greetings has been updated on <canebas.org> in preparation for the official 1.0 release of this software. This is work in progress, but it appears to be stable and perfectly usable as of now. Unfortunately, since there is no mirror site of Penguin Greetings running the actual 0.9.8 release, there is no place to see what Penguin Greetings looks like "out of the box." So unless some nice person offers to provide a new mirror site for Penguin Greetings, the only way to see the existing look of Penguin Greetings is to install it or wait for the 1.0 release when the new look will become the default. Peace, Edouard ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2004-03-30 19:39:57
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.8. This update features a new secondary ecard site The Penguin Greetings Four Seasons Collection <http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi?site=Pg4Seasons> which demonstrates the power of Embperl for developing elaborate ecard sites on top of the existing Penguin Greetings ecard engine. The 24 new images in the Four Seasons site can be placed in customizable card templates where type-style, frame, color, and other properties can be changed by the card site user. No changes where necessary to the Penguin Greetings ecard engine to implement the Four Seasons site. One modest but useful enhancement was added to Penguin Greetings error handling. There is now an error 40 defined in case a user tries to access a card removed from the site. In addition to the totally new Four Seasons site, There are 8 new cards and 9 other revised cards in the general collection. All the holy image cards have been reworked to appear more natural and human. There are even two new Easter cards for the season. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2004-03-13 16:30:11
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, Unfortunately, I have been unable to contact the folks running the Penguin Greetings mirror site to have them update to the newest version. So until further notice, the only place to see the current version of Penguin Greetings is the development site: canebas.org. See the demonstration pages (http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/demonstration.html) for more details. Apologies for the inconvenience, Peace, Edouard ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2004-03-06 18:14:10
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.7. This major update includes support object-oriented ecard sites via Embperl::Object. A new demonstration web site using this technology has been provided in English and French: The Penguin Greetings California Poppy Collection <http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi?site=PgPoppy>. Other important changes include: * Caching of all configuration file information for greatly improved performance for the SpeedyCGI version of pgreet.pl.(s)cgi. Configuration files are now periodicially reloaded and can be reloaded via SIGHUP for both the SpeedCGI application and the daemon. * Application daemon now handles purging of ecards older than a user- specified number of days. Daemon has been streamlined to improve responsiveness and simplfy configuration. All database files are now backed up daily. * Added a new database maintenance tool PgreetDButil. * Application daemon log file format has been cleaned up to greatly improve readability. * Updated PgTemplateTest to test object-oriented templates and purge old test files via a -x option. * Replaced all of the early cards which were not based on photos of some sort with far more artistic equivalients. Included are nine new or updated cards including new cards for Saint Patrick's day! Note that there was no public release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.6, only of the Perl module Pgreet and it had a minor but annoying bug which was fixed in Pgreet 0.9.7. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) P.S. As usual, it will take a few days for the new version to be installed on the linuxbox.co.uk mirror, so right now, the only place to view the new version in on the www.canebas.org website. ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2004-01-15 22:41:45
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of Penguin Greetings 0.9.5. This release adds support for Localization/Internationalization by intepreting the browser HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE environment variable. Two example secondary sites have been translated into French to demonstrate this capablity: The Holy ecard site - PgSaint and a (now dated) Christmas card site - PgXmas. In addition to the usual updates, the Love and Romance card section has been expanded for for Valentine's day. Penguin Greetings requires one additional CPAN module in order to support Localization: I18N::AcceptLanguage. This module is automatically installed by the Penguin Greetings installer: Install.PL. No changes has been made to the installer cache format, so your existing settings are preserved if you copy your cache to the new installation directory. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) P.S. As usual, it will take a few days for the new version to be installed on the linuxbox.co.uk mirror, so right now, the only place to view the new version in on the www.canebas.org website. |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-12-18 23:19:43
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, Christmas ecard secondary sites have been added to the demonstration site in English and French. These sites are part of the development for multiple language support that is under way for the Penguin Greetings software. However, they are fully functional now (you simply must "manually" select your preferred language at this time.) The Christmas card site in English is: http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi=3Fsite=3DPgXmas!en-us and the French site (cartes de voeux de No=EBl) is: http://www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi=3Fsite=3DPgXmas!fr-fr . . . Happy Holidays! |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-12-14 19:45:23
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.4 of Penguin Greetings. This interim release to provide the rest of the Christmas/ Holiday season cards for the end of 2003 and the New Year cards for 2004. There are no substantive changes to the software itself. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) P.S. As with the previous release, it will take a few days for the new version to be updated on the linuxbox.co.uk mirror. ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-11-26 18:59:18
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, The mirror demonstration site is now back up and running but at a new location (same server - different virtual domain.) You can access Penguin Greetings at http://www.toca.me.uk/pgreet.pl.cgi. Unfortunately, the server ran into some connectivity problems - like a broken ethernet driver!! It is now running the 0.9.3 version of Penguin Greetings so that you may look at the latest card offerings there. Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-11-19 00:21:35
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce the release of version 0.9.2 of Penguin Greetings. This release is a code cleanup and minor bug fix release. There are no new features in the application itself and upgrading from previous versions is straightforward if you have the installer.cache file from the previous release. There are 14 new cards bringing the total in the collection to over 120. This release includes cards for Thanksgiving and the Christmas Holiday Season. Enjoy! Peace, Edouard :-) P.S. Unfortunately, I haven't yet gotten the new version installed on the linuxbox.co.uk mirror, so the only place to view the new version in on the www.canebas.org website. ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-10-14 14:53:54
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Dear Matt,
Sorry for the surprise, but actually the daemon is probably working just
fine. The error messages you are seeing are being caused by an
incompatibility between Perl 5.8.0's Unicode system and the way that
RedHat has configured it's default character set. Thankfully, if you
upgrade to Perl 5.8.1 (just out) you won't get those error messages anymore.
pgreetd.pl is a daemon, so if you run it from the command line, it will
almost immediately give you back the prompt since it has forked a new
process. To see if it is really running, take a look at the Penguin
Greetings log (default: /var/log/pgreet.log) or check for processes named
pgreetd (e.g.:)
ps ax | grep pgreetd
You may multiple copies of the daemon already running which you should
kill as they will interfere with each other - this might be a good time
for a killall command! :-)
Sorry for the surprise, I've been developing on RedHat the whole time,
but since I've had these error messages for months, I learned to ignore
them ... perhaps too completely!! :-)
Peace, Edouard
P.S. I'm sending a carbon-copy to the Penguin Greetings user list in case
anyone else has the same problem.
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Matt Simonsen <ma...@ca...> wrote at Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:04:08 -0700
>Hello Ed-
>
>I very much like pgreet. Unfortunately, I can't get the mailer daemon to
>run. Below is the error... I've tried Date:Pcalc 1.1 and 1.2. Any other
>suggestions to make this work? The system is basically a Red Hat 8.0 box.
>
>Thanks
>Matt
>
>
>[root@yota pgreet]# ./pgreetd.pl
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x76,
>immediately after start byte 0xe9) in require at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 140.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x74,
>immediately after start byte 0xfb) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 141.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x63,
>immediately after start byte 0xe9) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 141.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
>immediately after start byte 0xe4) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 144.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6f,
>immediately after start byte 0xe7) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 152.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x72,
>immediately after start byte 0xe9) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 185.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x62,
>immediately after start byte 0xe1) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 186.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61,
>immediately after start byte 0xe7) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 189.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x62,
>immediately after start byte 0xe1) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 190.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xec) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 197.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xec) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 197.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xec) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 197.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xec) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 198.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (1 byte, need 3, after start byte 0xec) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 198.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaa, with no
>preceding start byte) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line
>223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaa, with no
>preceding start byte) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line
>223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaa, with no
>preceding start byte) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line
>223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaa, with no
>preceding start byte) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line
>223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xaa, with no
>preceding start byte) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line
>223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x62,
>immediately after start byte 0xe1) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 223.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x61,
>immediately after start byte 0xe7) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 248.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x6f,
>immediately after start byte 0xf1) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 248.
>Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x73,
>immediately after start byte 0xea) at
>/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Date/Pcalc.pm line 249.
>
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-10-02 23:13:40
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, There is a new demonstration site for Penguin Greetings thanks to the nice folks at: linuxbox.co.uk. You can access the site at: <http://www.linuxbox.co.uk/~pgreet/cgi-bin/pgreet.pl.cgi> See the Penguin Greetings demonstration information page for more information: <http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/demonstration.html> Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-08-31 20:37:56
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce that Penguin Greetings 0.9.1 is released. It includes a new testing framework for application configuration variables and a new application to test the main configuration file: PgreetConfTest. It also fixes a bug that caused the pgreet UID and GID to be installed as a string instead of a number. This caused the Penguin Greetings daemon pgreetd to send cards out as root instead of user pgreet. Also included are 6 new ecards for Grandparents in general and Grandparents Day in particular. Enjoy!! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-08-27 02:18:41
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Dear Penguin Greetings users,
The Installer with the 0.9.0 version of Penguin Greetings is leaving
quotes around the UID and GID numbers in the pgreet.conf file as shown in
example below:
### User and group to be used to send email (IMPORTANT!)
# User ID for user to send email if not overridden.
pgreet_uid = '521',
# Group ID for files to be sent later for email.
pgreet_gid = '230',
The Perl functions that assign the group and user reads this as a string
and sadly converts the string into a zero which is root user. As a
result, email is still sent out, but sent out as root instead of user pgreet.
The solution is simple. Just remove the single quotes (and the typo
comma) and then Penguin Greetings will use your own user as intended. You
may need to change the ownership of files which have been created as root
instead of pgreet.
Apologies for the inconvenience,
Peace, Edouard
P.S. For more information on known bugs, please check the bug tracker on
the Penguin Greetings SourceForge site: <http://sourceforge.net/
tracker/?atid=536272&group_id=72964&func=browse>
==================================
Edouard Lagache
Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings
http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/
pgr...@ca...
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-08-25 23:01:15
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce that Penguin Greetings 0.9.0 is released. At last, the installation procedure is MUCH improved!! The installer Install.PL now takes over the task of: installing the required Perl modules, localizing the application and configuration files, and copying everything where it belongs. You still need to create a pgreet user and make some directories, but the installer takes care of the rest. The core of the application remains the same as 0.8.8 (as promised,) but there are some bug fixes and code cleanups. There are also over 15 new cards bringing the total in the default collection to over 100!! Enjoy!! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-07-23 02:41:15
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce that Penguin Greetings 0.8.8 is released. This release candidate for the 0.9.x series is an extensive rewrite of core functionality and includes Perl modules for shared code and support for an unlimited number of secondary ecard sites running the same server and same CGI-Application/daemon pair. Other important changes include: SMTP client service, so that ecard can be sent via another SMTP gateway than the local computer, improvements to PgTemplateTest (formerly TemplateTest,) a new Database initialization tool: PgreetDBinit, Email messages with the user's own subject lines, 2 secondary demonstration ecard sites (one featuring camels - the other saints,) and 20 new cards all quite varied! Perl fans who take the camel as the Perl mascot will especially enjoy the secondary ecard site: Penguin Greetings - Camel Collection <http:// www.canebas.org/pgreet.scgi?site=PgCamel>. Send your Camel card today! Enjoy!! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-07-05 15:50:15
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I have been consolidating code that was duplicated between the CGI Application and the daemon in Penguin Greetings into a set of Perl object modules. This meant making major surgery in both applications and the inevitable introduction of bugs in the process. It has taken me a few days to work all the bugs from such a drastic change and the development web site was broken in various unexpected ways during that time. I *think* I've ferreted all the bugs, but I won't say so until I've been able to make more thorough testing. Apologies to anyone who sent cards for 4th of July and had problems. Alas, it is awkward for me to host both the current release and the development site on my LINUX box. Is there is anyone who is running Penguin Greetings and wouldn't mind having me point users to their server? Alternatively is there anyone who has a server with a more robust Internet connection who would run the current release for users to view? Help of this kind would be *greatly* appreciated! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-06-19 21:03:03
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I've now had two folks point this out so I'd better let the world know. The back buttons on the demonstration web site for Penguin Greetings are implemented as snippets of JavaScript. Because of the way Penguin Greetings retains state, you can press the "back" button in your browser and you will be able to go to the previous page without error. Since some web sites cannot support this, one of my "victims" (err, I mean, Beta-testers .. yeah! :-) would start over to be sure. So I added the JavaScript buttons as a convenience. However, obviously they require JavaScript to work. I will eventually provide a CGI back function, but there are just other things which are higher on the priority list. So, in the meantime, if you are using Penguin Greetings on a browser without JavaScript, just use the browser's own back button and everything will work perfectly well. Peace, Edouard ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-06-17 21:22:02
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, My apologies. I botched up the file release process to SourceForge and caused files that were only partially uploaded to be included in the release. The incomplete archives were obviously unusable. I just replaced the two archives with fully uploaded files. I just downloaded them to be sure. So belatedly enjoy the 0.8.3 release of Penguin Greetings Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <pgr...@ca...> - 2003-06-15 22:04:37
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce that Penguin Greetings 0.8.3 is released. This release features user-interface improvements to the default web-site that "ships" with Penguin Greetings, a new Standy mode, and a greatly enhanced template tool: TemplateTest.pl There are (count'em) 18 new cards for this release including new cards in the birthday, love and romance, sympathy and encouragement, religious, and general interest categories. Of course there are additional cards for the American Independence Day! Enjoy!! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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From: Edouard L. <ela...@ca...> - 2003-05-29 22:29:45
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Dear Penguin Greetings users, I am pleased to announce that Penguin Greetings 0.8.2 is released. Penguin Greetings supports a persistent Perl interpreter via the SpeedyCGI (http://www.daemoninc.com/SpeedyCGI/) utility. This greatly improves the response of Penguin Greetings while reducing the load it places on the server hardware. All of the SpeedyCGI performance parameters that can be changed during runtime have been added to the Penguin Greetings configuration file. There are now over 45 ecards included in the distribution including cards for Fathers' day, Thank you cards, and Patriotic cards. Enjoy!! Peace, Edouard :-) ================================== Edouard Lagache Lead Developer, Penguin Greetings http://pgreet.sourceforge.net/ pgr...@ca... |
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