Django and Gettext on Cpanel

Denis.v

• October 08, 2020 10:24

This question was asked by one of our users. Cpanel v90.0.14, Cloudlinux 7.8 on Centos 7. User configures and installs his project on Django according to the instructions: django-admin and manage.py | Django documentation | Django In place, after the "django-admin compilemessages" command, it gets a CommandError: Can't find msgfmt. Make sure you have GNU gettext tools 0.15 or newer installed. Python-gettext already installed: python-gettext 4.0. Non-root user does not access to the /usr/bin/gettext library and cannot use it. What can you suggest to run "django-admin compilemessages" (this is needed for translations and site localization) and how can he use the gettext library? Gettext itself is in /usr/bin: root: [root ~]# gettext --version gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.19.8.1 [root ~]# which gettext /usr/bin/gettext User: gettext --version bash: gettext: command not found [user ~]$ /usr/bin/gettext --version bash: /usr/bin/gettext: No such file or directory [user ~]$ which gettext /usr/bin/which: no gettext in (/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/lib/path-bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/cpanel/composer/bin:/root/bin:/opt/cpanel/composer/bin)

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  cPJeremy

  • October 08, 2020 19:49

  Hello @Denis.v ! Based on previous instances of this, by default the user should be able to access gettext as it is only in /usr/bin/gettext
  . However, I believe I have encountered this before. Do you know if the cPanel user in this question has CageFS Enabled? I went ahead and tested this, and when adding a cPanel user to CageFS that user no longer had access to /usr/bin/
  . What you would need to do is either remove the user from CageFS, or alternatively you can edit the file /etc/cagefs/cagefs.mp
  and add the value: /usr/bin
  . Please note, when you add a new directory to CageFS, you must remount remount the CageFS skeleton directory and all of the enabled users. Which is done using this command: cagefsctl -M
  I hope this helps!

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  Denis.v

  • October 09, 2020 14:05

  Added. Yes, now: [user] $ gettext --version gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.19.8.1. I don't know how much this will affect security, but there is access. Thank you!

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  cPJeremy

  • October 09, 2020 18:43

  My pleasure! I believe another option is that you can edit /etc/cagefs/cagefs.mp
  again but add just the binary for /usr/bin/gettext
  . Regardless, I do believe this should work for you. I am glad that we could help and for now you are able to use gettext!

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