OSX launchd <url> malformed error

[faisalsadaf]

Environment: - OS-X Lion on a Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM
- Bitnami MampStack with SugarCRM module installed (CE 6.3.x, updated to the latest patch level)
- Everything was working fine last night
- Problem: Scheduler no longer works and returns an (url malformed) error


So, the situation is that I am using launchd to schedule sending emails.

I have defined a plist file as a User Daemon (using the Lingon utility), which executes the sugarcrm cron.php file every 5 minutes (see contents of the plist file further below)

Since late last night, I am getting an error in the system log stating the following:

Jan 11 15:22:37 MacBook-Pro com.sugarcrm.Scheduler[4955]: curl: (3) <url> malformed
Jan 11 15:22:37 MacBook-Pro com.apple.launchd[1] (com.sugarcrm.Scheduler[4955]): Exited with code: 3e

The contents of the plist file are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>com.sugarcrm.Scheduler</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/bin/curl</string> <string>/Applications/mampstack-5.3.8-2/apps/sugarcrm//htdocs/cron.php</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> <key>StartInterval</key> <integer>60</integer> </dict> </plist>

An important note; when using

http://localhost:8080/sugarcrm/cron.php

instead of the actual application path

/Applications/mampstack-5.3.8-2/apps/sugarcrm/htdocs/cron.php

system can't find the cron file. When I type the actual path, it worked until last night.

Any ideas on how to resolve this please?

Thanks!

Faisal

[faisalsadaf]

I resolved this issue by:

- Stopping the User Daemon, then deleting it
- I also deleted tmp files in the /var/tmp folder *.plist.tmp (search your mac for any files containing plist)
- Restarting the mac without restarting the SugarCRM services (Apache and MySQL)
- Using Lingon to create a *My Agents* entry
- Sending test emails, then restarting the mac to ensure that it worked after a reboot.

If I understand it correctly, it was a permissions/environment issue. User Daemons were being launched at system boot as root, while the SugarCRM (Apache and MySQL) services were running as a user (me).

Everything is working as it should. I'm glad this episode is finally over ...

If anyone needs the plist file code, you can contact me directly.

-Faisal