Bug 223747

Summary:	Bugzilla cron jobs should run automatically
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bradley <bbaetz>
Component:	bugzilla	Assignee:	John Berninger <john>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6	Keywords:	Reopened
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.22/html/extraconfig.html
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Description Bradley 2007-01-22 04:14:25 UTC

Description of problem:

Bugzilla comes with several scripts that are meant to be run regularly. These are:

 - collectstats.pl, that is meant to be run from cron daily as the webserver
user to generate graph/reporting stuff
 - whine.pl, to be run every 15 minutes

(whineatnew.pl mentioned in the docs is obsolete, replaced by the web-based
per-user stuff in whine.pl)

A crontab entry should be created to run these. Note that they need to be run as
the webserver user, so that permissions are correct on the generated files.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

bugzilla-2.22-7.fc6

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install bugzilla RPM
2. Try to view reports/get whinemails
  
Actual results:

Get error that file doesn't exist/don't get whines

Expected results:

See data, and get whine mails

Additional info:

See http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.22/html/extraconfig.html

Comment 1 John Berninger 2007-01-23 00:22:12 UTC

Scripts in place in cron.daily, cron.d - new packages built.

Comment 2 Bradley 2007-01-23 00:45:47 UTC

That won't work - it needs to run from /usr/share/bugzilla, with that as the
CWD, too.

Copying collectstats like that also has the problem that it needs to run as the
apache user to have the permissions on the created files end up correct.

Comment 3 Bradley 2007-01-23 22:01:03 UTC

Actually, there does seem to be something odd wrt permissions, and the initial
running vs later ones....

Let me follow it up upstream first...

Comment 4 John Berninger 2007-01-23 22:09:52 UTC

Let me know what upstream tells you - I'm setting this NEEDINFO until you get
word back from upstream.

Comment 5 Bradley 2007-01-26 01:19:53 UTC

OK, so the scripts do need to be run as root, but that will cause problems for
the initial creation - a checksetup.pl run will fix that, but I've raised that
upstream. Hopefully will have a patch shortly.

It does, however, need to run with CWD as /usr/share/bugzilla/, so the copying
is wrong.

Comment 6 John Berninger 2007-01-27 17:08:28 UTC

Cron job created, seems to run correctly for me.  Please verify 2.22-10 fixes
this issue.