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Bugzilla has a number of optional features. This section describes how
to configure or enable them.
</p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="idm140035937919008"></a>2.3.1. Bug Graphs</h3></div></div></div><p>If you have installed the necessary Perl modules you
can start collecting statistics for the nifty Bugzilla
graphs.</p><pre class="screen"><code class="prompt">bash#</code> <span class="command"><strong>crontab -e</strong></span></pre><p>
This should bring up the crontab file in your editor.
Add a cron entry like this to run
<code class="filename">collectstats.pl</code>
daily at 5 after midnight:
</p><pre class="programlisting">5 0 * * * cd <your-bugzilla-directory> && ./collectstats.pl</pre><p>
After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs from
the Reports page.
</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.gif"></td><th align="left"></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.nncron.ru/" target="_top">nncron</a>.
</p></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="installation-whining-cron"></a>2.3.2. The Whining Cron</h3></div></div></div><p>What good are
bugs if they're not annoying? To help make them more so you
can set up Bugzilla's automatic whining system to complain at engineers
which leave their bugs in the CONFIRMED state without triaging them.
</p><p>
This can be done by adding the following command as a daily
crontab entry, in the same manner as explained above for bug
graphs. This example runs it at 12.55am.
</p><pre class="programlisting">55 0 * * * cd <your-bugzilla-directory> && ./whineatnews.pl</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.gif"></td><th align="left"></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.nncron.ru/" target="_top">nncron</a>.
</p></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="installation-whining"></a>2.3.3. Whining</h3></div></div></div><p>
As of Bugzilla 2.20, users can configure Bugzilla to regularly annoy
them at regular intervals, by having Bugzilla execute saved searches
at certain times and emailing the results to the user. This is known
as "Whining". The process of configuring Whining is described
in <a class="xref" href="whining.html" title="5.13. Whining">Section 5.13, “Whining”</a>, but for it to work a Perl script must be
executed at regular intervals.
</p><p>
This can be done by adding the following command as a daily
crontab entry, in the same manner as explained above for bug
graphs. This example runs it every 15 minutes.
</p><pre class="programlisting">*/15 * * * * cd <your-bugzilla-directory> && ./whine.pl</pre><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.gif"></td><th align="left"></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
Whines can be executed as often as every 15 minutes, so if you specify
longer intervals between executions of whine.pl, some users may not
be whined at as often as they would expect. Depending on the person,
this can either be a very Good Thing or a very Bad Thing.
</p></td></tr></table></div><div class="note" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em"><table border="0" summary="Note"><tr><td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../images/note.gif"></td><th align="left"></th></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
Windows does not have 'cron', but it does have the Task
Scheduler, which performs the same duties. There are also
third-party tools that can be used to implement cron, such as
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.nncron.ru/" target="_top">nncron</a>.
</p></td></tr></table></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="apache-addtype"></a>2.3.4. Serving Alternate Formats with the right MIME type</h3></div></div></div><p>
Some Bugzilla pages have alternate formats, other than just plain
<acronym class="acronym">HTML</acronym>. In particular, a few Bugzilla pages can
output their contents as either <acronym class="acronym">XUL</acronym> (a special
Mozilla format, that looks like a program <acronym class="acronym">GUI</acronym>)
or <acronym class="acronym">RDF</acronym> (a type of structured <acronym class="acronym">XML</acronym>
that can be read by various programs).
</p><p>
In order for your users to see these pages correctly, Apache must
send them with the right <acronym class="acronym">MIME</acronym> type. To do this,
add the following lines to your Apache configuration, either in the
<code class="computeroutput"><VirtualHost></code> section for your
Bugzilla, or in the <code class="computeroutput"><Directory></code>
section for your Bugzilla:
</p><p>
</p><pre class="screen">AddType application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml .xul
AddType application/rdf+xml .rdf</pre><p>
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