I have a cron job setup but it is not publishing anything. The cron job is this:

cd /the/path/to/cgi-bin/mt; perl ./tools/run-periodic-tasks

The results are the following:

Use of uninitialized value in unpack at lib/MT/Util.pm line 103.
Argument "" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at lib/MT/Util.pm line 104.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer ge (>=) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm line 103.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer addition (+) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm line 72.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer addition (+) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm line 130.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer multiplication (*) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm line 130.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer multiplication (*) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Time/Local.pm line 130.
Use of uninitialized value in unpack at lib/MT/Util.pm line 103.



This is actually repeated several times in the log. I'd like to figure out what is going on. Any ideas?

I get virtually identical behavior.

Output of my cron job:

Use of uninitialized value in unpack at lib/MT/Util.pm line 103.
Argument "" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at lib/MT/Util.pm line 104.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Time/Local.pm line 74.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer addition (+) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Time/Local.pm line 54.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer multiplication (*) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Time/Local.pm line 105.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer multiplication (*) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Time/Local.pm line 105.
Argument "" isn't numeric in integer addition (+) at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Time/Local.pm line 105.


Looks to me like these are all warnings related to time, and maybe localization (server offset from GMT?)

Most of them are warnings in Perl libraries - maybe a Perl version issue?

I'm hosting on Dreamhost, using MT just for activity streams, so with no actual "blog entries" - perhaps that's an issue?

Yeah I get the same (with Action Streams)
(didn't see this post so addded my own first).

I am getting this same error. I have been pushed off to the forums for answers... did you find any?

For me I run the periodic task script from the command line to run the action streams plugin. It seems to pull the stream date but doesn't rebuild my blog.

Bump. Having the same problem here. I'm trying to use ActionStream and that page isn't publishing. I haven't tried posting anything new (hoping to finish a post tonight) but if that doesn't work either, then I'm going to suspect that the publishing queue is messed up and turn it off.....