[Box-Admins] Fwd: [Board] Daily Commit Log has disappeared

[Levente Uzonyi]

I haven't checked it yet, but I think cron jobs are not executed in the 
chroot environment, or if they are, then it's the lack of the mailer 
program which is responsible for the missing daily commit log.

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 07:44:33PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> I think I did set up a cronjob to generate the daily commit log. The script probably was in my user dir. Did that survive?
>>
>> - Bert -
>
> Yes your script and the cron job have survived.
>
> According to the cron entry at /srv/box2/var/spool/cron/crontabs/squeaksource,
> cron entry was this:
>
> 55 23 *   *   *    /home/squeaksource/dailycommits/dailycommits.sh
>
> Your dailycommits.sh script and everything that goes with it is safely
> restored in /srv/box2/home/squeaksource/dailycommits/.
>
> I think that the script will run on box4, except that it looks like the
> /usr/bin/mail client that we had on box2 does not exist, so possibly it
> is necessary to do "apt-get install mailutils".
>
> So to get it running again, I think that the only thing required is to add
> a cron job for user squeaksource with the following entry:
>
> 55 23 *   *   *    srv/box2/home/squeaksource/dailycommits/dailycommits.sh

I don't think it's a good idea to trigger a script inside the chrooted
environment from the outside. (It's been a while since I set up and used a 
chroot environment (probably in 2008), and since Tobias was kind enough to 
do it this time, I haven't brushed up my knowledge.)

>
> That said, it looks like we do not yet actually have a user id "squeaksource"
> on box4, and for reasons that I cannot explain, the source.squeak.org home
> directory and everything under it are owned by user davidlewis (I did not
> do that, honest ;-).

The ownership information is kept as it was on box2. So what your id on 
box4 is is the same as what the id of the squeaksource user was on box2. 
Because of this, these files should only be used from the chroot 
environment.

>
> So we probably need to add a proper user for squeaksource (source.squeak.org,
> not squeaksource.com), and we should change the file ownerships to match.

This must not be changed while it's being run inside the chroot 
environment. There is a separate user inside, which is being used for 
running the service.
If the service is moved out of the chroot environment, then it'll need a 
new user on box4.

>
> But in the near term, since I just happen to coincidentally be a person
> named davidlewis, I'll bet that I can reinstall the old dailycommits cron
> job under my user id.

You shouldn't do that. Mixing the chroot environment and the main 
environment is not a good idea.

Levente

>
> I will see if I can install a mail client and cron job to get this working.
> Details will be in /root/admin-log.txt.
>
> Dave
>
>
>>
>> On 26.01.2015, at 16:32, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ah, what I said is probably not right.  You are talking about the
>>> daily-digest aren't you?  Not the individual commits, since we are
>>> still getting those.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> cc:box-admins
>>>>
>>>> My guess is we probably need to adjust the mail server settings in
>>>> SqueakSource instance running source.squeak.org..?
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM
>>>> Subject: [Board] Daily Commit Log has disappeared
>>>> To: Squeak Oversight Board Discussion <board at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>    the Daily Commit Log has disappeared.  I guess it's a job that has
>>>> not been ported from the Herzer servers.  It's really nice to be able
>>>> to read just the daily report to keep abreast of trunk & inbox
>>>> changes. Can we get it back?
>>>>
>>>> Eliot (phone)
>>
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