CLI version sometimes drops to 5.6

[drsassafras]

At one point I thought I had narrowed the issue down to the use of sudo, but now the PHP version seems to be stuck on 5.6, so I haven't been able to verify this.

What I did:

1. Created a user through the ClearOS admin panel.
2. Assigned the user to the root and wheel groups.
3. used sudo to perform various Tiki tasks (such as svnup.php and console.php)

At one point when I was using the command line, I was getting PHP 7.1 when not using sudo, and 5.6 while using sudo. Now PHP will only return 5.6. Maybe it has to do with me trying a sudo php -v

[drsassafras]

[pcbaldwin]

It looks like something in the environment is borked. I can certainly understand general sudo issues - it scrubs environment variables. However, you're not running sudo the second time around! Check the $PATH environment variable - it needs to include /usr/clearos/bin, preferably as the first item on the list:

PATH=/usr/clearos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

The wrapper that handles the PHP version lives in /usr/clearos/bin/php. Feel free to add the debug switch to track down problems:

#!/bin/bash -v

[drsassafras]

checked my $PATH

[brendan@drsassafras ~]$ echo $PATH
/usr/clearos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/brendan/.local/bin:/home/brendan/bin

I added the debug "-v" but have no idea what it does or how to use it.

Any other thoughts about this?

[pcbaldwin]

The path looks okay.

If you add the "-v" to the first line of /usr/clearos/bin/php and then run "php -v", it will trace through the /usr/clearos/bin/php wrapper script.

[drsassafras]

[brendan@drsassafras ~]$ php -v
module () {  eval `/usr/bin/modulecmd bash $*`
}
#!/bin/bash -v
# Companion script to wrap multiple versions of PHP in Linux
PENV=".phpenv"

args=()
for arg in "$@";
do
	args+=("$arg")
done

# Check if there is file called .phpenv in any of the folders, from CWD to the root
# Content should be 56 (/opt/rh/rh-php56) or 70 (/opt/rh/rh-php70)
TESTDIR=$(pwd)
VER=""
while :
do
	#echo $TESTDIR
	if [ -f $TESTDIR/$PENV ]
	then
		VER=$(cat $TESTDIR/$PENV | grep '[0-9]' | head -1)
		break
	fi
	if [ "_$TESTDIR" = "_/" ]
	then
		break
	fi
	TESTDIR=$(dirname $TESTDIR)
done

#echo "/opt/rh/rh-php$VER/root/usr/bin/php"
if [ -f "/opt/rh/rh-php$VER/root/usr/bin/php" ] ; then
	cmd=(exec "/opt/rh/rh-php$VER/root/usr/bin/php" "${args[@]}")
	"${cmd[@]}"
fi

# Fallback to execute the oldest (relying on SO sorting) installed if any
#if [ -d /opt/rh/ ] ; then
#	for DIR in /opt/rh/rh-php*
#	do
#		#echo "$DIR/root/usr/bin/php"
#		if [ -f "$DIR/root/usr/bin/php" ] ; then
#			cmd=(exec "$DIR/root/usr/bin/php" "${args[@]}")
#			"${cmd[@]}"
#		fi
#	done
#fi

# Fallback to the version of the SO
cmd=(exec "/usr/bin/php" "${args[@]}")
"${cmd[@]}"
PHP 5.6.38 (cli) (built: Sep 12 2018 08:52:18) 
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[pcbaldwin]

Well... that didn't help. Sorry about that.