Re: [cobalt-developers] need help with cron

[Mike Wes <m_wes@xxxxxxxxx>]

At home I am using a similar sort batch job construction
that look like below:

0 * * *
/home/sites/siteXXX/web/phpAds/maintenance/maintenance.php
 >/dev/null

I skipped "/usr/bin/php" from crontab and added this to the
first line in file maintenance.php

I am not sure that I included a #! before the
"/usr/bin/php". I will check this tonight or tomorrow (My
company blocks the SSH port number).

Independend from this problem you must check or the execute
permissions are set correctly :-). 

Other issue(s) to think about:
* In case of using such crontab job, the while directories
must be specified in the crontab entry and probably in the
files you are calling.
* I found out that it is not possble to create jpg/png
images using this sort of batch processing process. In that
cases I included a web-link, so the image where created by
Apache. It seems that the GD-library is build in as a
Apache module or something like that. It seems it is
possible to change this, but at this moment I am not such a
fan of changing a perfect working development system.
* In case a file is not found in crontab, the a mail is
send to the user/administrator of that site/server. Can you
find something about it?

Regards,

Mike

 --- njd 76 <njd76@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 
> This might work but how do i know if it is working? is it
> logged anywhere?
> 
> 
> >From: Michael Stauber <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] need help with cron
> >Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 03:29:42 +0100
> >
> > > 0 * * * * wget -q -O -
> > >
> http://www.domain.com/phpAds/maintenance/maintenance.php
> > >
> > > but it is not running. Any ideals? I need a solution
> i am lost.
> >
> >If you can execute PHP scripts from the command line,
> then try the 
> >following
> >instead:
> >
> >0 * * * * /usr/bin/php
>
>/home/sites/siteXXX/web/phpAds/maintenance/maintenance.php
> >/dev/null
> >
> >Wget is the wrong tool for this anyway and if at all,
> then you should use 
> >Lynx
> >instead. I think the following syntax once worked for
> me:
> >
> >0 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump
> >http://www.domain.com/phpAds/maintenance/maintenance.php
> >/dev/null
> >
> >--
> >
> >With best regards,
> >
> >Michael Stauber
> >
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