On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:27 pm, Paul H Byerly wrote:
I've got ht://dig working nicely, but I get an error message each time the nightly cron job runs:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /usr/local/bin/python2.2 -S /usr/local/mailman/cron/nightly_htdig
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/mailman>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=mailman>
/bin/sort: /opt/www/htdig/db/sort99SAvz: Permission denied htmerge: Word sort failed
/bin/sort: /opt/www/htdig/db/sortTjcbiZ: Permission denied htmerge: Word sort failed
The cron job and /opt/www/htdig/db/ both have the permissions root:mailman . The /opt/www/htdig/db/ has no files in it. My /opt/www/htdig/conf/htdig.conf reads:
database_dir: /opt/www/htdig/db
When rundig is executed by nightly_htdig it uses the -c option so that the per-list htdig configuration file found as $prefix/archives/private/<listname>/htdig/<listname>.conf is used.
My individual list folders (../mailman/archives/private/<LISTNAME>/htdig/) have the proper files and they update correctly. Everything seems to run correctly. Is this ht://dig "going back to it's roots" and trying to do something I have no need for?Take a look at the /opt/www/htdig/bin/rundig shell script.
My rundig, as installed by the standard htdig 3.1.6 build default, takes the default $DBDIR from the build and nominates it as the $TMPDIR when running htmerge. This probably explains why htmerge is using that directory for temporary sort files.
Why you are seeing the permissions failure if the cron job is being run from the mailman uid's crontab, and if that uid has write permissions over the /opt/www/htdig/db directory, is more of a mystery. You could try modifying the rundig script to try using another area like /tmp (but note the cautions in the rundig script's comments) and see if that resolves the problem.
Richard
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