[horde] Horde-alarms not aware of non-standard install directory

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ole Wolf <ole at naturloven.dk>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or just me not having configured my
> server correctly, but hopefully someone can help me out. :)
>
> I'm calling horde-alarms via a cron job as the user www-data:
>
> */5 * * * *	www-data	/usr/bin/horde-alarms
>
> At first, it gave the following error:
>
> PHP Warning:
> require_once(/usr/share/php/www/horde/lib/Application.php): failed to
> open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/bin/horde-alarms on line
> 18
> PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required
> '/usr/share/php/www/horde/lib/Application.php'  
> (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in  
> /usr/bin/horde-alarms on line 18
>
> This seems reasonable enough, since on my server, Horde isn't installed
> in /usr/share/php/www/horde, but in /var/www/webmail.
>
> I hacked my way around it by creating the directory /usr/share/php/www
> and from there making a symlink to /var/www/webmail (that is, ln
> -s /var/www/webmail /usr/share/php/www/horde), but this isn't an overly
> elegant solution.
>
> Is there an obvious way to make the horde-alarms and probably also the
> horde-agenda commands look for the horde installation in the right
> place, such as via an .ini file, or with an environment variable?

Make sure that the user that is running the cron job, doesn't have a  
local pear configuration in $HOME that overwrites the horde_dir path.

Jan.

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