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

[David T. Lewis]

Hi Levente,

There is no chroot required.

The cron script does not need to run from the chroot environment. The
only thing that I tried to change was the location of the script, which
is now in /srv/box2/home/squeaksource/dailycommits/ instead of its
original location in /home/squeaksource/dailycommits/. Aside from that,
it is just a shell script that works with files in its own directory.

Note, there is a typo in my note below, the cron entry will be:

55 23 *   *   *    /srv/box2/home/squeaksource/dailycommits/dailycommits.sh

As far as I know, the only problem right now is that the dailycommits.sh
script tries to send mail to "commits at source.squeak.org", and this does
not work. I do not know much about the mail system configuration, so
I don't know how to solve that problem.

Thanks,

Dave


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:31:38AM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
> 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)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >