PHP INI setting changed after UPCP

[techteamus]

Last night I noticed several hundred messages from my cron jobs complaining that the $argv variable was not set. Considering it is a day off I knew I did not change anything. This morning when I was able to investigate the problem I eventually discovered that:

register_argc_argv = On (The default)

To:

register_argc_argv = Off

Looking back through the emails it all began after the nightly UPCP which contained a version update for WHM to 58 and yum updates for PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.

To change the software configuration of a server can be very disruptive and I would like to know how this could happen.

 

[JacobPerkins]

Hi,

This shouldn't have happened, unless when the change was made, it wasn't made to local.ini, but instead to php.ini. Can you confirm where this change was made?

 

[techteamus]

Hello Jacob

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.d/local.ini
/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/etc/php.d/local.ini

Both those contain register_argc_argv = On which I assume is the correct I made through WHM to get things working.

/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/etc/php.ini
/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/etc/php.ini

Both those contain register_argc_argv = Off.

Daniel

 

[JacobPerkins]

Hi,

That looks correct, local.ini should contain your changes, and the php.ini is what the RPM puts down, and should contain the 'defaults', so to speak.

Were the original changes put into local.ini as well? I haven't heard of php.ini being overwritten at all, but I can't think of a reason why this would happen, and I wasn't able to replicate it either.

It might be good to throw in a ticket so we can take a deeper look at this, if you still have a server that was affected.

 

[ethix]

Looks like I had the memory setting in php.ini reset to 32M.

I am yet to check other servers but this one server somehow had the memory setting reset.