dev-null-dweller's questions

My crontab looks like:

root@slack13x64:~# crontab -l -u dnd
# some variables
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/dnd/bin
MAILTO=root

# Actual jobs
40 20 * * * /home/dnd/cron_jobs/some_job.sh
55 23 * * Fri /home/dnd/cron_jobs/other_job.py

Jobs run nearly OK, because crontab fails to set all variables:

Sep  1 20:40:01 slack13x64 crond[2325]: failed parsing crontab for user dnd: SHELL=/bin/bash
Sep  1 20:40:01 slack13x64 crond[2325]: failed parsing crontab for user dnd: PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/dnd/bin
Sep  1 20:40:01 slack13x64 crond[2325]: failed parsing crontab for user dnd: MAILTO=root

OS: slackware 13 x64, crontab 4.4

The question is what am I missing? Was support for setting initial env vars removed from crontab or user which runs this job should be assigned to some group?

I'm trying to set up sendmail to receive system messages on my real email account. I've set up alias for root and started newaliases. Now mailq reports:

Deferred: Connection timed out with mymail.server.com

I suspect it due to ISP blocking port 25 (I cannot telnet on this port to my mail server, telneting with port 587 works fine).

My question is how to configure sendamil, to connect with other servers using port 587 instead of 25? I'm using TurnKey Core (Ubuntu 10.04 based) distro.

I've got a problem with configuring apache to run only files with .php extension through FastCGI. Sample VirtualHost configuration :

<VirtualHost 192.168.0.185:80>
    ServerName host1.example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/www/host1.example.com/WWW/

    SuexecUserGroup host1 www

    <Directory "/home/www/host1.example.com/WWW/">
        AllowOverride All
        Options +ExecCGI
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php
        FcgidWrapper /home/www/host1.example.com/fcgi/php5.fcgi
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

The problem is, that it also runs files like whats.new.in.php.6.html (basically every file containing .php followed by the dot) as fastcgi instead serving it as static content. I've tried changing AddHandler to

AddHandler fcgid-script .php$

With no luck - php files were not interpreted and served as plain text.

Is there a way to prevent this?

I'm trying to set up development environment for some old projects in PHP 5.1.4. It needs to run as CGI (or fastcgi) under apache and I would like to have cli binary. My configure options are:

./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/php-dev \
--with-config-file-path=/usr/local/php-dev/etc \
--enable-bcmath \
--enable-calendar \
--enable-dbase \
--enable-exif \
--enable-fastcgi \
--enable-force-cgi-redirect \
--enable-ftp \
--enable-gd-native-ttf \
--enable-mbstring \
--enable-memory-limit \
--enable-soap \
--enable-track-vars \
--enable-trans-sid \
--enable-versioning \
--enable-xslt \
--with-curl=/usr/local/php-libs/curl-7.12.2 \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-dir \
--with-gd \
--with-iconv \
--with-jpeg-dir \
--with-mhash \
--with-mime-magic \
--with-mssql=/usr/local/php-libs/freetds-0.64 \
--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql5 \
--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock \
--with-openssl \
--with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/mysql5 \
--with-pear \
--with-ttf \
--with-xslt-sablot=/usr/local/sablot-1.0.3 \
--with-zlib

After installing it, I have only these files in /usr/local/php-dev/bin:

pear
peardev
pecl
php
php-config
phpize

I would expect also php-cgi or php-cli. When running ./php -v from command line it shows:

PHP 5.1.4 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Sep 23 2010 09:46:33)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
 with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans

So I only have CGI version and when I try to run CLI specific scripts, variables $argv and $argc are NULL.

Is there a way to have both CLI and CGI versions? (system: slackware 13.0)