380732 - testserver.pl webservergroup validating fails w/some Apache setups

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement)

Description

[Richard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 3.0

I have Debian Stable installed on a server, using Apache 1.3x as the webserver. I use Debian's 'apache-perl' rather than 'apache' package, because the former has mod_perl statically linked in.

The webserver test in testserver.pl (from Bugzilla 3.0 tarball) fails since the process is named apache-perl. testserver.pl looks for either 'httpd' or 'apache' only.

Result: TEST-WARNING Failed to find the GID for the 'httpd' process, unable
to validate webservergroup.

Renaming 'apache' to 'apache-perl' in testserver.pl allows the script to 'find' the running webserver and complete the test successfully.

Result: TEST-OK Webserver is running under group id in $webservergroup.

It would be nice if the script checked for common alternative names.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

:gerv- is this still a worthwhile bug to fix?  If so, and if this makes a good first bug, can you link to the code, how to reproduce this problem, and what an ideal fix looks like?  This should have a mentor assigned as well.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

testserver.pl line 47:
            if ($line =~ /^(?:\S*\/)?(?:httpd|apache?)2?\s+(\d+)$/) {
This should be generalised to make "apache" a prefix.

Reproducing the problem, however, might be tricky without using Debian and apache-perl.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Removing good-first-bug keyword because team does not have bandwidth to mentor at the moment.