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authorPeter Thoeny <web-hurd@gnu.org>2000-09-21 01:29:02 +0000
committerPeter Thoeny <web-hurd@gnu.org>2000-09-21 01:29:02 +0000
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Each %WIKITOOLNAME% web does an automatic email notification of recent changes. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe themselves in %NOTIFYTOPIC% of each TWiki web. The Perl script `mailnotify` is called by a deamon in regular intervals. The script is sending an automated email to subscribed users in case some topics changed in a web within this interval.
-Implementation note: Edit the cron table so that `mailnotify` is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult `man crontab` of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example:
+Installation note for Unix platforms: Edit the cron table so that `mailnotify` is called in an interval of your choice. Please consult `man crontab` of how to modify the table that schedules program execution at certain intervals. Example:
% crontab -e
- 15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify)
+ 15,45 * * * * (cd ~twiki/public_html/bin; ./mailnotify -q)
-The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes passed every hour.
+The above line will call mailnotify at 15 minutes and 45 minutes passed every hour. The `-q` switch suppresses all normal output.
--- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 21 Apr 2000 <br />
+-- [[Main/PeterThoeny]] - 20 Sep 2000 <br />