FW: collectstats permission problem

[Benton, Kevin]

This brings up a good point - there are users who don't want
checksetup.pl to force permission changes.  I think we ought to ask if
the user wants to change permissions.  If not, then we ought to leave
them alone.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mozilla-webtools-admin at mozilla.org [mailto:mozilla-webtools-
> admin at mozilla.org] On Behalf Of K.Godsoe
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 9:13 AM
> To: mozilla-webtools at mozilla.org
> Subject: Re: collectstats permission problem
> 
> Brett,
>     I cheated to make this work.  I created a script that would be run
by
> cron, this script would check file permissions, and if they were not
set
> correctly, it would set them for me.  The reason I check permissions
is
> incase one of the other admins re-ran checksetup.pl it would reset
> permissions on the file.After the psmission check I had the script
change
> to
> the directory where I have my bugzilla install
> (/usr/local/www/html/zilla/)
> and I have it
> running the whineatnews.pl, collectstats.pl, and whineatnews2.pl.
That
> seemed to fix my issues with the permission denied messages.   hope it
> helps.
> 
> -Kris
> 
> "Brett" <bg at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:RcydnYAjaZ3CMOvfRVn-pQ at adelphia.com...
> > "Brett" <bg at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:ZYKdncCAH5dI7PPfRVn-vw at adelphia.com...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am using bugzilla 2.18 and my checksetup.pl passes fine.
> >>
> >> I can run collectstats.pl on the command line OK. But everyday I
> receive
> > an
> >> email from cron with the following message:
> >>
> >> /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla:
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl: ./data/mining/-All-,
Permission
> > denied
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl: ./data/mining/Project1,
Permission
> >> denied
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl: ./data/mining/Project2,
Permission
> >> denied
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl: ./data/mining/Project3.,
> Permission
> >> denied
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl: ./data/mining/Project4,
Permission
> >> denied
> >> Can't open DBM dupes file: No such file or directory at
> >> /usr/share/bugzilla/collectstats.pl line 202.
> >> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/bugzilla exited with return code 2
> >>
> >> The permission for these files is 644 with owner and group as
www-data
> >>
> >> Can anyone tellme what the problem is?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Brett.
> >
> > Some further information...
> >
> > CollectStats.pl is being run as a perl job under the
cron.daily/bugzilla
> > cron job. I've read otherwhere that this has to be run as a cron
job,
> does
> > it have to be run in addition to this job?
> >
> > the permissions on all the files are 644 with both the owner/group
as
> > www-data.
> >
> > Is anyone able to help me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brett
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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