[horde] Directory problem with horde alarms

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

On 22-11-2014 18:56, Louis-Philippe Allard wrote:
>  Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 21-11-2014 13:57, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>> Zitat von Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>> Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> On 21-11-2014 00:08, Louis-Philippe Allard wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I have setup a cronjob for the horde alarms reminders which runs
>>>>>>>>> every
>>>>>>>>> 5
>>>>>>>>> minutes.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Upon setting up proper email MTA backend, I started receiving
>>>>>>>>> emails
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> the server every time the cron job ran.  The email contains
>>>>>>>>> PHP Warning:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> require_once(/usr/share/pear/www/horde/lib/Application.php):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/horde-alarms
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> on line 21
>>>>>>>>> PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required
>>>>>>>>> '/usr/share/pear/www/horde/lib/Application.php'
>>>>>>>>> (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in
>>>>>>>>> /usr/bin/horde-alarms
>>>>>>>>> on line 21
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think you have something wrong with your configuration. The path
>>>>>>>> being
>>>>>>>> search is really odd (/usr/share/pear/www/horde/lib/).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I wonder if this shouldnt be addressed by the setup instructions
>>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>>>> webmail?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello there,  I agree something is wrong but this is the result of
>>>>>>> following the webmail install instructions to the letter on a fresh
>>>>>>> centos
>>>>>>> 7 virtual machine... Perhaps something is different on Centos and
> the
>>>>>>> webmail install instructions on horde's website needs to be
>>>>>>> modified??
>>>>>
>>>>> The cronjob is not using the same configuration that you used for
>>>>>> installing horde.
>>>>>
>>>>> *PEAR* configuration, that is.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jan Schneider
>>>>> The Horde Project
>>>>> http://www.horde.org/
>>>>> https://www.facebook.com/hordeproject
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Thanks Jan,  can you however clarify how to setup the cronjob pear
>>>> environment properly? Is there a wiki entry for this? Finally,
>>>> shouldn't
>>>> this done by the install script?
>>>> Sounds highly unusual to have to setup something like that after a
>>>> framework is installed, that is, without this occurrence being
>>>> documented
>>>> or indicated anywhere..
>>>>
>>>> Just trying to make this work without errors and help improve Horde's
>>>> user-friendliness!
>>
>> I assume your the cron job run as root. So you should check as root (not
>> using sudo) what is the php_dir option configured to in PEAR:
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> root at myserver:~# pear config-show
>>
>> ...
>>
>> PEAR directory                 php_dir
> /usr/share/php
>>
>> ...
>>
>> You must have something wrong there. You can fix it using the command
>> pear config-set, like this:
>>
>> root at myserver:~# pear config-set php_dir /usr/share/php
>>
>> But remember to run it as root (not just using sudo), in order to get ir
>> right.
>>
>> Hope it helps.
>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> You either run the script as a different user than the one you used for
>>> installing Horde (or rather: for configuring the horde_dir
>>> configuration setting via the Horde_Role post-install script), and one
>>> of these users has a custom PEAR configuration. See user configuration
>>> in the PEAR docs.
>>> Or you specified a custom configuration or configuration file during
>>> the Horde installation, and failed to pass the same configuration when
>>> running the script. This is documented in the install docs.
>>
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>
> Hello Luis Felipe, funny we have the same first name but mine is in 
> french
> ;)
>

Heheh, sure thing. Mine is a "portuguese-brazilian" version of yours 
(which is the name of the King).


> Your instructions helped.  After I set the Pear path properly to
> "/usr/share/php" and fixed the crontab entry to be run as root instead as
> apache, it started working just fine.
>

Glad it is working!

> When I installed horde webmail I was logged on as root and executed the
> commands as root... Probably not recommended ...
>

Hum, but if you weren't logged in as root, I don't think you would've 
been able to complete the installation process. So I guess this was not 
the problem. For some reason your php_dir option got messed up. But you 
have fixed it.

> Thanks again!

Cheers.