190052 - processmail rescanall should unlink data/versioncache when it's done

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

I ran processmail rescanall to fix up lots of bugs with no mail sent on
Bugscape.  The hour at which data/versioncache gets rebuilt happened to be due
at the time, so it rebuilt data/versioncache.  Only problem is, I was running as
root, and not as the webserver, so data/versioncache is now no longer accessible
by the webserver, and it can't overwrite it to make a new one.  Since I can't
think of any reason an average sysadmin would be running as the webserver user
when running processmail rescanall, we should try to prevent this (perhaps chmod
and chgrp it based on $webservergroup, but the easy answer is just unlink it and
let it get rebuilt the next time someone hits it from the web).

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Why do we rebuild the versioncache every hour? Its not like its so complicated
that it can get corrupted, or anything...

(Alternately, getting rid of the versioncache is on my List)

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

This is no longer applicable, since you can no longer run "rescanall" as any
user other than the webserver user to do it (since you now have to go through
sanitycheck.cgi to get to it).