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Bug 10 - Error messages when I submit a bug comment
Summary: Error messages when I submit a bug comment
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Bugzilla Admin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P normal
Assignee: Brian R. Gaeke
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 17
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Reported: 2003-10-07 16:23 PDT by Brian R. Gaeke
Modified: 2018-11-07 00:17 PST (History)
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Description Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-07 16:23:30 PDT 
When I submit a comment for a bug, the page bugzilla sends back
includes the following error messages:

Changes submitted for bug 4
Who are you?: Inappropriate ioctl for device /no/such/directory/dead.letter...
cannot open /no/such/directory/dead.letter: No such file or directory Email sent
to: sabre@nondot.org
Excluding: gaeke+bugs@uiuc.edu
If you wish to tweak the kinds of mail Bugzilla sends you, you can change your
preferences
Comment 1 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-07 16:24:12 PDT 
This happened when I submitted this bug, too.

Bug 10 has been added to the database
Who are you?: Inappropriate ioctl for device /no/such/directory/dead.letter...
cannot open /no/such/directory/dead.letter: No such file or directory Email sent
to: brukman+bugs@uiuc.edu
Comment 2 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-08 08:59:17 PDT 
bugzilla as installed on zion is owned by uid/gid 48/48;
this does not correspond to any actual user/group, and it
is the uid/gid that bugzilla runs as (due to suexec).
I think I will create a bugs/bugs user/group for
bugzilla, and chown all the bugzilla files to it. It doesn't
have to be in NIS.
Comment 3 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-08 09:00:18 PDT 
as long as i am here, reassign to me.
Comment 4 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-08 10:13:48 PDT 
that worked out nicely.
Comment 5 Misha Brukman 2003-10-08 11:28:48 PDT 
Eh, it wasn't uid/gid 48/48, it was assigned uid/gid apache, so that the webserver could read/
modify the files in the bugzilla directory. That was a conscious decision, as the docs suggested 
making bugs stuff readable/writeable by the web server.

I have no clue how and why it works the way it is now, but since it is...
Comment 6 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-08 12:30:27 PDT 
bzzt, zion has no user/group apache:

3 zion> id -a apache
id: apache: No such user
4 zion> grep apache /etc/group
5 zion> ypmatch apache group
Can't match key apache in map group.byname. Reason: No such key in map
6 zion> 


VERIFIED FIXED because we're not getting these errors anymore.
Comment 7 Brian R. Gaeke 2003-10-08 12:47:37 PDT 
btw, it works now because I changed the webserver from trying to use
apache/apache to use nobody/nobody, and the bugzilla dir is bugs/nobody, mode 775