intelmq-manager start/stop does not work

[aaronkaplan]

Pressing Start/Stop in the Management tab does nothing.

Probably a permission problem?

[SYNchroACK]

Yes, its a bug. What I do everytime i star the machine is:

mkdir /var/log/intelmq
mkdir /var/run/intelmq
chmod -R 700 /var/run/intelmq
chmod -R 700 /var/log/intelmq
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/run/intelmq
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/log/intelmq

chmod -R 770 /etc/intelmq/
chmod -R 700 /var/run/intelmq
chmod -R 700 /var/lib/intelmq
chmod -R 700 /usr/local/bin/intelmqctl
chmod -R 700 /var/log/intelmq

chown -R intelmq.intelmq /etc/intelmq/
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/run/intelmq
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/lib/intelmq
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /usr/local/bin/intelmqctl
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/log/intelmq

Of course, we need to commit a solution to do this automatically.

[aaronkaplan]

Every time the VM reboots, the directories /var/run/ seems to be deleted.
Suggestion: if intelmqctl is triggered, it should check the permissions and folders.

[SYNchroACK]

mkdir /var/run/intelmq
chmod -R 700 /var/run/intelmq
chown -R intelmq.intelmq /var/run/intelmq

[SYNchroACK]

So, its a problem on 'intelmqctl'

[Th4nat0s]

I had issue only on "stop"... start is ok... could it been related ?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/intelmq/bin/intelmqctl", line 413, in <module>
    x.run()
  File "/opt/intelmq/bin/intelmqctl", line 184, in run
    results = call_method(self.args.bot_id)
  File "/opt/intelmq/bin/intelmqctl", line 233, in bot_stop
    res = self.__bot_stop(bot_id, pid)
  File "/opt/intelmq/bin/intelmqctl", line 242, in __bot_stop
    stop_process(pid)
  File "/opt/intelmq/bin/intelmqctl", line 112, in stop_process
    p.send_signal(signal.SIGINT)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psutil-2.1.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/psutil/__init__.py", line 258, in wrapper
    return fun(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psutil-2.1.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/psutil/__init__.py", line 986, in send_signal
    self._send_signal(sig)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/psutil-2.1.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/psutil/__init__.py", line 975, in _send_signal
    raise AccessDenied(self.pid, self._name)
psutil.AccessDenied: (pid=69718)

[sebix]

@Th4nat0s Does this issue still persist on current versions (v1.0-final branch of intelmq)?

[kralca]

Today I have a similar problem. I can stop a bot in intelmq-manager, but I cannot start it. There are no errors in the logs, and I tracked it down to being a problem with running intelmqctl via sudo. For some reason that I cannot explain, the bot does not start when intelmqctl is run using the 'sudo -u intelmq' approach. You can very easily verify this for yourself. The bot starts fine if you 'sudo -iu intelmq' first and then run intelmqctl from the shell.

[kralca]

This is related to #61. The problem is that the environment variable INTELMQ_PYTHON is not set when intelmq is run via 'sudo -u intelmq'. I have tested the following solution (Ubuntu 14.04.3). No doubt there are other ways to achieve the same result.

1. add INTELMQ_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.4 to /etc/environment
2. add Defaults env_file="/etc/environment" to sudoers using visudo

[sebix]

If INTELMQ_PYTHON is not set, the standard Python version is used (python), it is not necessary to run the software itself. This means that the bot was not able to start with Python 2.

[kralca]

That makes sense. We are using the Python 3 version of intelmq as recommended in the installation. I changed the first line of intelmqctl to #!/usr/bin/env python3 to make things work on Ubuntu since python will be Python 2 for a while - see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/3. Is there a better way to use intelmq with Python 3? Using an alias for python will not solve the issues above with intelmq-manager.

[sebix]

Duplicate of #69