Questions with setting up aurweb instance

[Hunter Wittenborn]

On a side note, where do the Cron scripts get installed to?

Checking my crontabs with `EDITOR=nano crontab -e` after installing 
cronnie is only showing a blank file, both under root and the user I 
made for aurweb.

Is there anywhere else they might be installed?
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*Hunter Wittenborn*
hunter at hunterwittenborn.com

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 2:06 am, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-dev 
<aur-dev at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
> I'm doing some more testing, but SMTP still isn't working.
> 
> I created a testing script at /home/test.sh that contained `echo ${@} 
> &> /tmp/asdf.log` so I could see if its even attempting to send mail, 
> but that file didn't even get created.
> 
> > If neither is working, then check out the send() function in 
> aurweb/scripts/notify.py, the smtplib interactions are fairly simple 
> and I'm not sure what the problem might be.
> 
> Am I able to run the send function manually somehow, so I could see 
> what errors it produces? I'm seeing the `aurweb-notify` command is 
> available, but I'm not sure what argument I would pass it.
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> *Hunter Wittenborn*
> hunter at hunterwittenborn.com <mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com>
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 5:13 pm, Hunter Wittenborn 
> <hunter at hunterwittenborn.com <mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com>> 
> wrote:
>> Just reporting back on the issues I had:
>> 
>> The SMTP issue was due to my VPS provider blocking the standard 
>> email ports (25, 465, 587). They let me get them unblocked through 
>> contacting them though, and I imagine it'll work just fine after.
>> 
>> Then I just need to get the TU stuff set up, but that shouldn't be 
>> too hard (hopefully).
>> 
>> Again, thanks!
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>> *Hunter Wittenborn*
>> hunter at hunterwittenborn.com <mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com>
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 4:22 pm, Hunter Wittenborn via aur-dev 
>> <aur-dev at lists.archlinux.org <mailto:aur-dev at lists.archlinux.org>> 
>> wrote:
>>>  > If it is not set, then you'll need the other keys in the 
>>> [notifications]
>>> section (the smtp-* ones) correctly configured for the python 
>>> "smtplib"
>>> library to communicate with an MTA that will send messages on your 
>>> behalf.
>>> 
>>> > If neither is working, then check out the send() function in
>>> aurweb/scripts/notify.py, the smtplib interactions are fairly 
>>> simple and
>>> I'm not sure what the problem might be.
>>> 
>>> Sounds good, I'll check things out. Just wanted to confirm I wasn't 
>>> missing a value in the config or anything.
>>> 
>>> > Our production instance had those manually set up and accounts 
>>> have
>>> always been migrated, never re-inited from scratch. You need to 
>>> create
>>> or modify an account with the SQL field AccountTypeID set to 2.
>>> 
>>> > You can take a look at the script which generates random data for 
>>> dev
>>> purposes located in schema/gendummydata.py [1]
>>> 
>>> > The script generates random accounts including Trusted Users with
>>> password same as username.
>>> <<<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/blob/master/schema/gendummydata.py#L154-186>>>
>>> 
>>> If I can get this working, I don't see much of a need to implement 
>>> anything new (unless aurweb is being used by a crazy ton of 
>>> less-experienced people or something). I imagine I could just 
>>> automate it into a Bash script after I figured out the commands 
>>> if I really needed to.
>>> 
>>> Ideally I'm gonna try to not upgrade this a ton too, as I'm making 
>>> a decent amount of changes in the GUI, and I don't want to deal 
>>> with a bunch of hassle over and over.
>>> 
>>> Thanks! I'll send a message if it's still not working right.
>>> ---
>>> *Hunter Wittenborn*
>>> hunter at hunterwittenborn.com <mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com> 
>>> <<mailto:hunter at hunterwittenborn.com>>
>>> 
>>> 
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