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[Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>]

Hi Oliver,

Your analysis of the problem was right.
We've patched our CVS version. Here is the patch :
http://listes.cru.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/sympa/src/task_manager.pl.diff?r2=1.57&r1=1.56&f=u

Thanks.

Oliver Thalmann a écrit :

> i think i've found the problem
>
> in  sub_execute  (task_manager.pl)
>
> there is the following code :
>
> my $task_file = $_[0]; # task to execute
> ..
> # positioning at the right label
> $_[0] =~ /\w*\.(\w*)\..*/;
> my $label = $1;
>
> which determines the action type of the task by parsing
> the full name of the taskfile
> ($_[0] equate $task_file)
>
> so $1 is the string between the first and second
> dot in $task_file.
>
> now if sympa is installed in a basedirectory like /mail/sympa, everything works, 
> because $1 contains what task_manager.pl expects to find, as the first dot in 
> $task_file is "contained" in the real filename, not in a  prepended directory
>
> however, if sympa is installed in a directory which itself contains dots as i did it 
> (/mail/sympa-3.4.4.3), then $1 contains "4" (string between first and second 
> dot of the full file path), which is something task_manager.pl doesn't really like.
>  
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Olivier Salaun
Comite Reseau des Universites