daemon user needs shell?

[TauTau]

Hi,

I came across something I don't quite understand. While implementing ttrss on my root server, I used the init script from here http://noctus.net/2012/initscript-mit-tiny-tiny-rss-1-5-10. I got errors about a not found .stamp file in the lock directory. There is a .lock file in the directory, so the process (which is running, I could verify that) was able to create *that* file. However, only when I gave the user the daemon runs under a shell, ttrss started to update feeds.
So why is the update process able to create the .lock file, but not the .stamp file (I couldn't see if it really creates the file, it just wasn't able to *find* one from the error message)? I'd really prefer the http users to not have a login shell

[TauTau]

ok, seems that didn't solve it. The user now has a bash entry in /etc/passwd, the ttrss and lock directory have permissions 777 (not good), and I still get

E_WARNING (2) include/functions.php:2136 file_get_contents(lock/update_daemon.stamp): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

[fox]

Hello I can't linux, and

[TauTau]

did another test... su'ed to the user it should run with, changed to the ttrs directory, and ran

php ./update_daemon2.php

when there is a thread spawned:

[MASTER] spawned client 0

I get directly after that:

sh: /php: not found

what does that mean?

Edit: Same Error comes with "php ./update.php --daemon"

[blainemono]

Did you grep the kernel daemon? It's a bit wonky when not grepped.

[TauTau]

joking? What should a grep to a kernel daemon do? And which daemon?

Just to clarify this a bit, I'm a fulltime server admin, so I usually know my way around a system, just php is not my kind of beef

[fox]

>I'm a fulltime server admin

[TauTau]

so, running "php ./update.php --feeds" seems to work, it's just the daemon part not working. If it was a shell script, I could debug it...

[blainemono]

Is your daemon plugged in correctly? Try reversing the polarities.

[fox]

Don't do that, it will tear your server apart!

[blainemono]

Well he has the full of the time to admin it back to life!

[TauTau]

why is this forum called "support", instead of "home of the drunks"?

[fox]

Ultimately it's the same thing.

[blainemono]

Hello. My name is Blaine an I am an alchoholic.

[fox]

Hello. My name is Blaine an I am an alchoholic.

I have bad news, buddy. Not only you are an alcoholic, there's a slight case of being eternity's gaping anus.