[horde] Horde-alarms problem

Mon Mar 12 12:06:22 UTC 2012

Zitat von Jens Grüntjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:

> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>> Zitat von Jens Grüntjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Zitat von Jens Gruentjes <jens.gruentjes at ebira.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> Is your problem just "quite similar" or do you get the same error  
>>>> messages?
>>>>
>>>
>>> The error messages are the same:
>>>
>>> www-data at xxxxxx:~$ LC_ALL=C horde-alarms
>>> 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
>>
>> Unless /usr/share/php/www/ is your webroot, this means that your  
>> horde_dir PEAR setting is wrong. This setting is supposed to be set  
>> by running the Horde_Role postinstall script.
>> But you can also set it manually:
>> pear config-set -c horde horde_dir /path/to/horde
>>
>
> My webroot (for horde) is /var/www/, i.e. horde is installed at  
> /var/www/horde.
>
> Is it possible that the horde_dir is set for the user that runs the  
> Horde_Role script? In my case it was run by root, so root can  
> execute the horde-alarms correctly. Is it recommended to run the  
> horde-installation as the user who runs the webserver (in my case  
> www-data)?
>
> Running your command gives the following result:
>
> www-data at xxxxxx:~$ pear config-set -c horde horde_dir /var/www/horde
> config-set (horde_dir, /var/www/horde, user) failed, channel pear.horde.org

PEAR should really be a bit more verbose with the error message.  
Anyways, does:

pear config-set -c horde horde_dir /var/www/horde system

executed as root work?

>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
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