/usr/local/bin/mail.php is only executed from the console

Lanes

This is what I get when checking permissions on the file. Could this be the issue?

$ls -l /usr/pbi/nut-amd64/local/etc/nut/upssched-cmd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1796 Aug 7 13:26

Gertjan

Well, all NUT config file are 'owned' bu 'uucp', but I guess it isn't needed.

I can't do a real 'test' right now, I'm not on site ;)

Sunday (tomorrow) I'm goint to test-drive it.

Btw : read http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/addons/nut/start
and look at the yellow warning:

the '&' at the and of the sendmail command is mandatory upssched will only wait a few ms for the end of the script but sendmail may take up to 3-5 seconds to send the mail, so upssched will try to hit the trigger again and will also only wait a few ms till it get a return code so in the end it will send 3-5 emails instant of only one. With the & the sendmail command will be send to background an the script returns immediately the error 0 and all are happy :)

Your not using 'sendmail', you start an instance of php (/usr/local/bin/php) using settings (/usr/local/etc/php.ini) to have /usr/local/bin/mail.php being executed.
Add the & to that line to have it thrown in the background.

First line:
#!/bin/sh
there was a space in it, remove it (?!)

doktornotor

"-rwxr-xr-x" is executable for anyone, that's not the problem. But the shebang is indeed obviously wrong.

Lanes

Fixed the shebang, and added & at the end of the email line - still does not run ???

Gertjan

Hi,

At this stage, I'm seeing the same results as you do.
The script runs fine /usr/pbi/nut-amd64/local/etc/nut/upssched-cmd.sh from the command line … but .. no mails (edit: when NUT starts upssched-cmd.sh) .

Btw: change the definition of "UPSLOG".
It should read :

UPSLOG=`clog /var/log/system.log | $grep ups | $tail -5`

I'm still 'fighting' with

printf "$DATUM\n$*\n\n$EMAIL_CONTENT" | /usr/local/bin/mail.php -s"UPS Alert: $EMAIL_SUBJECT" &

Which is a condensed version - command line works, from script: No.
It seems to me that /usr/local/bin/mail.php isn't even executed.

Your questions were helpful to me : it seems that the battery of my UPS is in a bad shape. I have it changed it before I continu testing.

Gertjan

I've been trying this week to make this work.

I used this script:

#!/bin/sh

WHOAMI=`whoami`
printf "Script executed by $WHOAMI" | /usr/bin/wall 

logger 1223
/usr/local/bin/php -q /root/test.php
logger 5678

exit 0

I know "uupc" (NUT) calls this script, because I found these in the main log:

Aug 14 12:20:20 	root: 5678
Aug 14 12:20:20 	root: 1223
Aug 14 12:20:20 	upsmon[94982]: UPS APC-UPS@localhost on line power
Aug 14 12:20:15 	root: 5678
Aug 14 12:20:15 	root: 1223
Aug 14 12:20:15 	upsmon[94982]: UPS APC-UPS@localhost on battery

But : no trace of why this
/usr/local/bin/php -q /root/test.php
isn't executed

Btw: /root/test.php

#!/usr/local/bin/php -q
require_once("util.inc");

log_error("In here !!");

?>

Btw : modo : this thread should be moved to the "Packages" forum.

Lanes

Unfortunately I have not had any time to research any more into this myself for the past week, so thanks for your efforts. Do we believe this to be a bug, or just some misconfiguration of pfsense/nut?

I have a few things I want to test when given the opportunity:

Can the NOTIFYCMD script call / execute any non-php file
Does the issue remain if we set NUT to use upssched, and then call the php script via the CMDSCRIPT variable instead
Does the issue remain if we do write the commands inline in upsmon (NOTIFYCMD = 'do stuff here')

Lanes

I got bored trying to find a solution for this issue back in August, and I have not looked at it until today. Since August there has been a few updates of the NUT package that I silently hoped would fix my issue, but no luck. I still can't get any php script to trigger from NUT, and I am at a loss where to look next.

Where can I report this issue?

jimp

have you tried:

/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/bin/mail.php

Rather than executing it directly?

Lanes

Tried that, and I have lost count for how many variations I have tried. It just won't execute the php. I am now using the same script as Gertjan posted above to test, and I have the exact same results as he.

ryan87

I have the same issue. I've never been able to get it working. There's a related feature request here.

Lanes

Good find ryanjaeb, I had not come across that for all my searching. I am a bit disappointed by the feature not being in place, but at least it appears the issue is not on my end.

On a related topic: How do you guys then monitor the status of your UPS? I suppose I can create a separate log file, and possibly monitor that for changes to send email notifications. It would not be instant, but it could work.

larathydo

Hi Everyone,

I'm going absolutely mad myself trying to get email notification functionality to work via the NUT package and NOTIFYCMD via upsmon.conf options.

Has anyone been able to get this to work? I too tried to use mail.php but nothing ever happens. The same command in the console works just great.

Can anyone think of another alternative method to facilitate basic email functionality though something other than mail.php if we're hitting this limitation? As in, I wonder if we could still call a script via NOTIFYCMD but instead of the script relying on mail.php, it could use some other mechanism to send the email?

This is so aggravating! Has anyone ever got NUT email functionality to work in any way-shape-form?

jimp

FYI- Though NUT is not yet on 2.3, using mail.php from the GUI and elsewhere appears to work on 2.3 where it did not on 2.2.x. Might be the difference in PHP versions or other changes to PHP handling, but at least from the tests I was able to run, it sent messages to me when it wouldn't otherwise.

Carltonson-sky

hi everybody,

Can you tell me how to use mail.php under 2.3 release please. I’m looking for the syntax but without success. can you give me an example ? I try to send an email to the people who filled my php form.
Thanks in advance

cheers

jimp

@Carltonson-sky:

Can you tell me how to use mail.php under 2.3 release please. I’m looking for the syntax but without success. can you give me an example ? I try to send an email to the people who filled my php form.

Not likely to be usable for that. It's for basic mail from the CLI:

echo test | mail.php -s="Blah"

Start a new thread in the appropriate forum (not here) and maybe someone can help come up with a way to do what you're after.

Hosting a form like that on the firewall is not something we'd recommend, however.