Author Topic: Call to undefined method CRM_Utils_System::authenticatescript (Read 5196 times)

fen · August 19, 2007, 07:20:32 pm

I'm using CiviCRM v1.8 stable; there's a new call to authenticatescript() in bin/civimail.cronjob.php that seems to be causing me a problem. The context is:

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    // this does not return on failure
    // require_once 'CRM/Utils/System.php';
    CRM_Utils_System::authenticateScript( true );

Indeed, authenticateScript() is defined in CRM/Utils/System.php but even when the 'require_once' is un-commented, civimail.cronjob.php still fails.

I'm running Apache with FCGI - perhaps the FastCGI is causing me problems? (I'm not completely sure of all the implications of FCGI.) Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you,
=Fen

Donald Lobo · August 19, 2007, 07:41:43 pm

Can u be more specific in how it fails?

Note that we've changed ALL cron jobs in 1.8 as follows:

1. Should be invoked via a url (i.e. via wget or curl)

wget http://<drupal_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=<username>&pass=<pw>

The previous version was quite open and allowed anyone to trigger the cron jobs

2. You need to send the name/pass of a valid drupal user in the above script. I think we need to make this even more secure and ensure that this user has "civicrm cron privileges". I suspect we'll make this happen when we move all of permissioning into CiviCRM

lobo

fen · August 19, 2007, 11:25:40 pm

Quote from: Donald Lobo on August 19, 2007, 07:41:43 pm

Can u be more specific in how it fails?

Apologies. Here's the error-log:

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[warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method CRM_Utils_System::authenticatescript() in /home/clients/websites/w_nodrm/civicrm/v1.8-rev10954/bin/civimail.cronjob.php on line 52

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Note that we've changed ALL cron jobs in 1.8 as follows:

1. Should be invoked via a url (i.e. via wget or curl)

wget http://<drupal_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=<username>&pass=<pw>

The previous version was quite open and allowed anyone to trigger the cron jobs

2. You need to send the name/pass of a valid drupal user in the above script. I think we need to make this even more secure and ensure that this user has "civicrm cron privileges". I suspect we'll make this happen when we move all of permissioning into CiviCRM

lobo

I generally call it as a URL anyway, and have tried sending in a name/password (though I don't like putting passwords in a URL query string) but get the same issue. I'll test more tomorrow and report back.

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Author Topic: Call to undefined method CRM_Utils_System::authenticatescript (Read 5196 times)

fen

Call to undefined method CRM_Utils_System::authenticatescript

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fen

Re: Call to undefined method CRM_Utils_System::authenticatescript