553615 - plugins.stage.mozilla.com permissions issue writing to logs AND cache clear

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Please clear the application cache for plugins.stage.mozilla.com. (memcache probably)

Also, the same permissions issue that was fixed yesterday is back today.
file_put_contents( /data/www/plugins.stage.mozilla.com/application/logs/2010-03-19.log.php, 2010-03-19 09:28:49 -07:00 --- debug: Database cache cleared: Database_Mysql_Driver
, 8 )

Please fix the permissions of the parent directory... or do we need to change something in our app? This is Kohana based and I haven't run into this issue before.

Comment 1

[Austin King [:ozten]]

What is the ownership and permissions of the parent directory?
'application/logs'

Comment 2

[Austin King [:ozten]]

@lorchard any ideas here?

CCing @ryansnyder another Kohana user.

I've looked through our configs and can't find anything that would cause this. In my dev env everything works, files are owned by www-data (apache).

Comment 3

[Ryan Snyder [:ryansnyder] [:rsnyder] [:rysny]]

I have run into a similar problem before.  Ensuring that apache is the owner of the application/logs directory took care of the problem.

You can also check the config.php to ensure that $config['log_directory'] is set correctly.

Comment 4

[Austin King [:ozten]]

So this app is set up a little differently than other Kohana apps.

From https://svn.mozilla.org/projects/plugindir/trunk/README.markdown
* Make these directories exist and are writable by Apache:
    * application/logs
    * application/cache
    * application/cache/twig

Also caching is setup in 'application/config/config-local.php' instead of application/config/cache.php

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

All of these directories already have world write access.

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Also caching is setup in 'application/config/config-local.php' instead of
> application/config/cache.php

And I have no idea what I'm looking for that needs to be in one file and not the other, can you be more specific here?  Shyam's the one who's been working on setting this up, and he's out for the weekend.

Comment 7

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

per discussion with ozten on irc, it doesn't sound like this is an emergency, so tossing over to shyam to take care of when he comes back from the weekend.

Comment 8

[Austin King [:ozten]]

(In reply to comment #7)
Yesterday we deleted the log file and used the app to test log file creation. It created a new log with apache:apache owner and everything went fine.

This is a high priority bug, in terms of getting ready for a prod release.

Comment 9

[Austin King [:ozten]]

This issue is back for today's log

file_put_contents(/data/www/plugins.stage.mozilla.com/application/logs/2010-03-20.log.php) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied

Comment 10

[Austin King [:ozten]]

Forcing an error does return a 500 in dev, which I wasn't seeing in stage.

I changed plugins.php line 305 to call a method that doesn't exist, to simulate a db error.

Comment 11

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

FWIW, this won't happen on production since we have these on an NFS directory, mounted across the webheads. 

I don't think this is blocking anything for a production release?

Comment 12

[Austin King [:ozten]]

(In reply to comment #10)
Ignore. This comment should have been made in Bug#552249

Comment 13

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Alright, this should be fixed. Les pointed out that we had a cron running, which would run as root...and hence messed up the permissions. 

I've made the cron run as apache now, shouldn't see this again.

Comment 14

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

So this just ran, and created no logs :

[root@mrapp-stage02 logs]# tailf /var/log/cron | grep plugins.stage
Mar 21 10:45:01 mrapp-stage02 crond[8004]: (apache) CMD (cd /data/www/plugins.stage.mozilla.com; ./bin/compile-mo.sh > /dev/null; rm -f /data/www/plugins.stage.mozilla.com/application/cache/twig/*)
Mar 21 10:45:01 mrapp-stage02 crond[8007]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/svn-up.sh /data/www/plugins.stage.mozilla.com HEAD > /dev/null; )