[kronolith] Alarm

Sat Feb 4 21:14:14 PST 2006

tempis fugit

http://lists.horde.org/archives/kronolith/Week-of-Mon-20051114/005722.html

Craig

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:59 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I vaguely recall having to set up horde vfs for this to work (that's not
> on the wiki page though...hmmm)
> 
> You might want to look at the archive of this list for the month of
> December or January.
> 
> Also - did you verify that you have a cli version of php (per the link I
> sent you to) ?  php -v
> 
> The DB Error: connect failed is rather suspicious...did you check
> out /tmp/horde.log ?  AFAIK, the reminders.php script should use the db
> settings in horde/config/conf.php so if the program can connect and
> read/write to db, the reminders.php should be able to as well.
> 
> Craig
> 
> (meant to send to list) - must need sleep...big game tomorrow
> 
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 23:52 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > Thank you both for the reply, but unfortunately, it is still not working.
> > 
> > I get the same error
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # which php
> > /usr/local/bin/php
> > # /usr/local/bin/php -f
> > /var/www/htdocs/horde/kronolith/scripts/reminders.php
> > 
> > A fatal error has occurred
> > 
> > DB Error: connect failed
> > 
> > Details have been logged for the administrator.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I still cannot find any error output anywhere, so I am at a total loss here.
> > Again, my DB is up and running just fine, so why it states it cannot
> > connect is beyond me...
> > 
> > Is there something else we can look at?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > >Not easy replying to a top reply but...
> > >
> > >you need to execute it from php
> > >
> > >[root at srv1 ~]# which php
> > >/usr/bin/php
> > >[root at srv1 ~]# /usr/bin/php -f \
> > >/var/www/html/horde/kronolith/scripts/reminders.php
> > >X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.9
> > >Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > >
> > >[root at srv1 ~]#
> > >
> > >set it to a cron with a repeating interval.
> > >
> > ># cat /var/spool/cron/apache
> > >0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58 * * * * \
> > >/usr/bin/php -f /var/www/html/horde/kronolith/scripts/reminders.php \
> > >  
> > >
> > >>/dev/null 2>&1
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >HTH
> > >
> > >Craig
> > >
> > >On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 20:19 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Okay...
> > >>
> > >>I did find this in the archives.  The way it was listed, it looked like
> > >>someone's
> > >>signature file, so I missed it the first time around.
> > >>
> > >>http://wiki.horde.org/KronolithReminders?referrer=HowTo
> > >><https://brokensolstice.com/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.horde.org%2FKronolithReminders%3Freferrer%3DHowTo>
> > >>
> > >>I tried to follow this, but it is a no-go.
> > >>
> > >>I log into my box via ssh, as root, I run:     # php
> > >>./htdocs/horde/kronolith/scripts/reminders.php
> > >>It gives me:
> > >>        A fatal error has occurred
> > >>
> > >>    DB Error: connect failed
> > >>
> > >>    Details have been logged for the administrator.
> > >>
> > >>My db is up and running just fine, and I cannot find where it would have
> > >>logged the
> > >>errors it mentioned.  It isn't in /var/www/tmp/horde.log, it isn't in
> > >>/var/log/messages
> > >>or anywhere else I can find.
> > >>
> > >>Can someone please help?
> > >>
> > >>Thanks.
> > >>
> > >>Chris
> > >>
> > >>Craig White wrote:
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 11:53 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > >>> 
> > >>>
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>>>Hello.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I have seen similar complaints of this in the archives, but have not
> > >>>>seen a solution.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I am getting no indication what-so-ever from Kronolith when I have an
> > >>>>alarm set on a calendar item.  I have tested this over and over.  I get
> > >>>>no pop-up, I get no indicator on my calendar page or on my portal.  I
> > >>>>get no email reminder.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I have set up an account on my box called "reminder", and I tested it
> > >>>>using sendmail and mini_sendmail -- and it works.  Yet I get nothing
> > >>>>        
> > >>>>
> > >>>>from Kronolith.  I have set up kronolith to use this account.  Still
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>>>nothing.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Ideally, I would like a pop-up reminder for alarms like outlook or
> > >>>>mozilla calendar would do.  I do not know if Kronolith supports this
> > >>>>however.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Failing that, I would like a message on my portal screen and calendar. 
> > >>>>Failing those, an email reminder.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I am running kronolith-h3-2.0.6 with horde-3.0.9.  I am using the sql
> > >>>>back end (I don't even know what MCAL is...).  I am running this on an
> > >>>>OpenBSD 3.8 system in a chroot Jail.  Everything all my other horde
> > >>>>packages are now running great, and so does every other aspect of Kronolith.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I see nothing unusual in my log files, Kronolith just seems to ignore
> > >>>>the alarm altogether.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Can someone please help?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Thank you.
> > >>>>   
> > >>>>
> > >>>>        
> > >>>>
> > >>>----
> > >>>http://wiki.horde.org/KronolithReminders?referrer=HowTo
> > >>>
> > >>>Craig
> > >>>
> > >>> 
> > >>>
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
>