[horde] Horde-alarms problem

[Jens Grüntjes]

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 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?

Yes, it does:

root at xxxxx ~ # pear config-set -c horde horde_dir /var/www/horde system
config-set succeeded

>
>>>>>>> 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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