[Vtigercrm-developers] Ubuntu Server, www-data, crontab and Monolog issue?

[Joe Bordes]

Hi

that is a monolog feature :-)

but can you try to just run the cron as www-data, I have been doing that 
for years with no issue at all

* * * * * www-data cd .... /usr/bin/php vtigercron

even if that user does not have shell access that works

give that a try, if it works for you, you avoid having to create another 
user and to do any further investigations


On 29/8/24 16:28, Alan Lord wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some of you maybe aware that for a while now Ubuntu servers have 
> configured the apache user (www-data) to not have access to a shell.
>
> So consequently for a while now, I have usually created a "system" 
> user called vtiger, added it to the www-data group and given that user 
> a shell. I then use this as the user in the crontab. (I don't like 
> running cron jobs as root).
>
> Today I noticed something which I never noticed was a problem before 
> the change to Monolog...
>
> If I enable the debug log in config.performance.php, the vtiger cron 
> can't run. I see this in my cron log file:
>
>> HP Fatal error:  Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or 
>> file "/var/www/html/vtigercrm/logs/vtigercrm.log" could not be opened 
>> in append mode: Failed to open stream: Permission denied
>
> The vtigercrm/logs dir is rwxrwxr-x www-data:www-data and my vtiger 
> user is a member of www-data. The vtigercrm.log file however, is 
> created rw-r--r--.
>
> So this explains why I can't open the file and I'll find a way to fix 
> that, but, the bigger question for me is that this USED to work before 
> we switched to Monolog without any issue???
>
> Secondly - the old vtigercrm.log file was chmod'ed to 200 iirc so you 
> had to be root to read it. Now anyone can read it. Not sure if that is 
> a big deal any more or not but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
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Un saludo
Joe
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