'zmfilter.pl ' exited abnormally, exit status 9

[overly]

After setting up a fresh install of Slackware 13 and ZM 1.24.2 I was getting messages in zmdc.log that zmfilter.pl was failing.

When I ran zmfilter manually from a shell prompt I got the following...

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Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/Date/Manip/TZ.pm line 588, <DATA> line 335.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 53, <DATA> line 335.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/zmfilter.pl line 53, <DATA> line 335.

I googled and found a Debian bug report posting which indicated a problem with Date::Manip::TZ (I'm using perl 5.10.0). A follow-up post mentioned Date::Manip::TZ doesn't understand SystemV timezones on /etc/timezone and suggested a different timezone format.

Slackware doesn't use an /etc/timezone file (AFAIK anyway), however on a whim I created the file with the command below and the error with zmfilter went away.

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echo "America/New_York" > /etc/timezone

Hope this might help someone else experiencing the same problem.

[onethumbwilly2]

Thank you. This helped me as well but in my case I used US/Pacific

[jbmia]

This helped me as well.. Amahi/Fedora 14 install...
Thanks!

jbmia