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Problem running getlists from cron [message #33040]

Wed, 09 August 2006 14:34

billnot

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Sorry to be a nuisance again, but I'm trying hard to integrate my existing maillists (using Arrow) into FUDforum. In another topic, you're helping me with the NNTP aspect. I'm very nearly there doing it with e-mail, but I've fallen at the last hurdle.

In case you haven't heard of Arrow, it's a Windows mailing list system which I've been using for some years and it's very reliable; I'm not going to change it! But members are asking for a web interface, hence FUDforum.

Mail from the forum is going to the mailing list perfectly. Using the getlists.php script, mail from the mailing list is also going into the forum correctly - if I run getlists.php manually. If I try to run it as a cron job, including using the built-in pseudo-cron, I get an error:

Warning: popen(/home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5,w) [function.popen]: Resource temporarily unavailable in /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/getlists.php on line 140
0.05s: Failed opening pipe for forum:

Line 140 of getlists.php reads:

$pipe = popen($this->config['posting_script'] . ' ' . $f['id'] , "w");

I don't understand why it won't run as a cronjob; I suspect a permission problem, but I don't know where to start.

BTW, I've tried with Forum files both locked and unlocked with the same result.

FUDforum itself is up and running well; what a versatile system (I've tried a few others and this is by far the best); it's just this last integration hurdle that I need to beat!

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33053 is a reply to message #33040]

Wed, 09 August 2006 23:51

Ilia

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You probably need to execute the command via php
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popen("php /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5","w");

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33060 is a reply to message #33053]

Thu, 10 August 2006 09:54

billnot

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Ilia wrote on Thu, 10 August 2006 01:51

You probably need to execute the command via php
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popen("php /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5","w");

Unfortunately, that gives exactly the same result.

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33061 is a reply to message #33060]

Thu, 10 August 2006 11:18

Howie

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Hi Bill, i have finnaly found a message from you on "FUDform"

Adios, Howie.

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33062 is a reply to message #33060]

Thu, 10 August 2006 13:23

Ilia

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Is the php binary in the path?

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33065 is a reply to message #33062]

Thu, 10 August 2006 15:19

billnot

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Ilia wrote on Thu, 10 August 2006 15:23

Is the php binary in the path?

Yes, it is. If it weren't, many of the other scripts I use would fall over.

I have also passed this on to the support guys at my hosts (ICDSoft) who suggested changing the line for posting_script from absolute to relative. That removed some of the errors, but still resulted in the mail going into the getlists_mainforum.txt file rather than the forum.

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33069 is a reply to message #33065]

Thu, 10 August 2006 17:51

billnot

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An update. ICDSoft support has given up on this, and thrown it back in my (your) court.

To summarise (if it helps)
If I run the script from the built-in cron support (which allows one execution daily!) or from the manual "run" button attached to it, the script works perfectly every time. Whatever I do, however, if I try to run it inside another script (as an include to ma e a psuedo-cron) it falls down, equally reliably.

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33072 is a reply to message #33069] Thu, 10 August 2006 20:28

Ilia

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If you are running it via PHP, why not just modify maillist.php to be a callable PHP function, certainly would be faster for one.

Another try could be to execute it like this:


<?php
shell_exec("cat message | php /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5");
?>

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33075 is a reply to message #33072] Fri, 11 August 2006 09:21

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Ilia wrote on Thu, 10 August 2006 22:28

If you are running it via PHP, why not just modify maillist.php to be a callable PHP function, certainly would be faster for one.

Could you tell me how I'd do that, please

Another try could be to execute it like this:


<?php

shell_exec("cat message | php /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5");

?>

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Getlists.php gives me the (same old) message:
2.09s: Failed opening pipe for forum:

I really do appreciate what you're doing to help me; you're probably finding me as frustrating as I find the problem. What bugs me is that I can sit at my website control panel and run the script manually and it runs perfectly every time. But any attempt at running getlists.php other than that results in it not communicating with maillists.php.

Other than going the same way as Homer Simpson and getting a mechanical bird to peck every 10 minutes at my keyboatd, I'm fast running out of ideas!

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33081 is a reply to message #33075]

Fri, 11 August 2006 14:58

billnot

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I've ound out the answer! It's something weird about my hosts. I have to put the path to a special PHP executable in the popen:

$pipe = popen("/usr/local/bin/php4.cli /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5","w");

on the appropriate line of getlists.php sovlve severything.

So, on this topic, just one more question:
the original line was
$pipe = popen($this->config['posting_script'] . ' ' . $f['id'] , "w");

I must have something wrong in the syntax, as if I make this
$pipe = popen("/usr/local/bin/php4.cli" $this->config['posting_script'] . ' ' . $f['id'] , "w");

it doesn't work. Could somebody, after calling me a clueless newbie, give me the correct syntax for the generic call?

Thanks!!

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33085 is a reply to message #33081] Fri, 11 August 2006 15:35

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<?php
shell_exec("cat message | php /home/costabla/www/www/FUDforum/scripts/maillist.php 5");
?>

Would be the most generic way to execute the command from PHP.

P.S. Change the path to the php binary as needed.

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Re: Problem running getlists from cron [message #33090 is a reply to message #33040]

Fri, 11 August 2006 15:51

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Thanks for persevering with me on this one, Ilia. The method you suggest works; now all I have to do is to adapt it for multiple forums, (multiple getlist*.php files is the obvious answer) but I think I can manage that on my own.

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