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Re: Using Cron via PHP CLI Executable [message #166695 is a reply to message #166694]

Fri, 10 February 2012 20:42

DaveQB

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For those that are interested in this matter and have php on the CLI working.
For me to get this working I did this:

As I couldn't su t the web user I had to change some permissions to run cron.php in a cron job.

In <FUDforum data>/scripts/ I chmod'd a few files to (666 or Read + Write for all 3 levels) in the Admin Control panel (so as web user)

The log files from my jobs:

xmlagg.php_1.log
acp.php_3.log

Also in that folder make sure "cron.php" is executable by all too.

Then over in: <FUDforum data>/

errors/LAST_CRON_RUN

This file is touched when cron.php is run so the next time it is run it knows when it was last run.

So now with that set to 666 and cron.php executable by all any user can run cron.php
Not ideal but the only way without root access on the machine.

Then I added the job into the users crontab (I use vim but people might find nano easier, so..)

export EDITOR=nano crontab -e

The paste in:

0 * * * * /<FUDforum data>/scripts/cron.php

And also add to the top of that crontab

MAILTO=<my email address>

So now you get updates of when it runs. Ideal only email when something happens. So to prevent the "Nothing to run" email every hour I commented out line 67 in the cron.php file:

//echo date('d M Y H:i:s') .": Nothing to run.\n";

There, done!

[Updated on: Fri, 10 February 2012 20:43]

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