[horde] Horde-alarms problem

[Jens Gruentjes]

Hello,

I have a problem with the horde alarm system. My problem is quite  
similar to the problem that was already discussed on this list (I  
attached the conversation below). Unfortunately for me there was no  
"solution" offered as information was missing. I can say that the user  
www-data in my case has no local pear configuration. I installed horde  
the standard way (no separate PEAR installation).

Is it recommended to run the alarm-script as root user or is a  
non-priviledged-user preferred? What can I do to run the script as  
user www-data?

I'm using Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 4.0.6
turba-3.0.12
nag-3.0.7
ingo-2.0.7
horde-4.0.14
kronolith-3.0.15
mnemo-3.0.5
imp-5.0.19

Thanks for any hints
Jens

> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 09:46 +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:

> > 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.