Hi,
What Linux flavor are your server running ?


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Alaa Anabtawi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got stucked with a Campsite installation on one of my servers when it came
> the "automated tasks".
>
> It says:
> Error: Could not save cron job files. Could not run the crontab executable.
>
> I checked the permission, they should be fine. In the beginning of
> the installation all the requirements were filled as well.
>
> Anything that I could pass for server people to fix?
>
> Yours,
>
>
> --
> Alaa Anabtawi
>



--
/holman

Hum... it doesn't tell me exactly what is your Linux distro, sorry. I
was asking you because it might be some Debian/Ubuntu specific code in
our installer causing the failure.

Anyway, what you need to do is to make sure the system user running
Apache is able to create/write its own crontab file.


On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Alaa Anabtawi wrote:
> Linux 2.6.18-028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 11:28:25 MSK 2009 x86_64 x86_64
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Holman Romero
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> What Linux flavor are your server running ?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Alaa Anabtawi wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I got stucked with a Campsite installation on one of my servers when it
>> > came
>> > the "automated tasks".
>> >
>> > It says:
>> > Error: Could not save cron job files. Could not run the crontab
>> > executable.
>> >
>> > I checked the permission, they should be fine. In the beginning of
>> > the installation all the requirements were filled as well.
>> >
>> > Anything that I could pass for server people to fix?
>> >
>> > Yours,
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Alaa Anabtawi
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /holman
>
>
>
> --
> Alaa Anabtawi
>



--
/holman

i have ssh acsess, may be trhis will help

kind regards

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Holman Romero wrote:

> Hum... it doesn't tell me exactly what is your Linux distro, sorry. I
> was asking you because it might be some Debian/Ubuntu specific code in
> our installer causing the failure.
>
> Anyway, what you need to do is to make sure the system user running
> Apache is able to create/write its own crontab file.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Alaa Anabtawi wrote:
> > Linux 2.6.18-028stab064.8 #1 SMP Fri Nov 6 11:28:25 MSK 2009 x86_64
> x86_64
> > x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Holman Romero
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> What Linux flavor are your server running ?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Alaa Anabtawi
> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I got stucked with a Campsite installation on one of my servers when
> it
> >> > came
> >> > the "automated tasks".
> >> >
> >> > It says:
> >> > Error: Could not save cron job files. Could not run the crontab
> >> > executable.
> >> >
> >> > I checked the permission, they should be fine. In the beginning of
> >> > the installation all the requirements were filled as well.
> >> >
> >> > Anything that I could pass for server people to fix?
> >> >
> >> > Yours,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Alaa Anabtawi
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> /holman
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alaa Anabtawi
> >
>
>
>
> --
> /holman
>



--
Alaa Anabtawi

Hi Alaa,

If possible, give me ssh access to the server so that I can see by
myself and figure out what is wrong. If not, what you can do is to
comment lines number 114, 115 and 116 in the
install/classes/CampInstallationBase.php file and run the installer
again. However, after finishing the installation you would have to
create those cron jobs entries by hand.

Best,


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Alaa Anabtawi wrote:
> dear Holman
>
>

Hi Karen,

We develop Campsite on Ubuntu, so it is by nature our main platform
target, although Campsite is known to run on practically any Linux
flavor (like RedHat), only not as straight as it does on Ubuntu.
Anyway, this is just for your information, it is not an excuse by any
means. We are now in the middle of a big and positive change and as
consequence we can say Campsite will properly support all those main
platforms. In fact, you can see we already have a ticket scheduled in
our roadmap for 3.4 release
http://dev.sourcefabric.org/browse/CS-2085

You should create this entries on your cron:

* * * * * /your/path/to/campsite/bin/campsite-autopublish
0 */4 * * * /your/path/to/campsite/bin/campsite-indexer
0 */8 * * * /your/path/to/campsite/bin/subscription-notifier
*/2 * * * * /your/path/to/campsite/bin/events-notifier
0 */4 * * * /your/path/to/campsite/bin/campsite-statistics

Do not forget to change "/your/path/to/campsite/" to fit your installation.

Easiest way to do it is by running (as a root user):

crontab -u apache -e

After that, you will be presented an editor where you can type/paste
those entries. Save and that's it. You do not need to restart cron to
make these new jobs have effect.

Let us know how it goes.

Best,


On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Karen
<campsite-support@lists.sourcefabric.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not an expert in Linux just yet...how would I go about creating these specific cron jobs by hand? I've had to resort to commenting out 114-116 unfortunately....
>


--
Holman Romero
Senior Software Engineer, Sourcefabric

holman.romero@sourcefabric.org

http://www.sourcefabric.org