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user652650
user652650

Reputation: 638

PHP Script as Cron doesn't work, but does from CLI

I have a php script that triggers some magento actions, and I set it to a cron of:

cd /home/dir/public_html; php -f file.php;

This starts the script, however it does not finish executing for some reason, the cron runs as the user "user", and when I run the command from the terminal as root it works perfectly. All the files it uses are chowned to user however. I thought it was an issue with paths which is why I added the CD command to the front of it, however that wasn't it.

I'm thinking this may be an issue with the creation of a lock file, I have it create a lock file, run the script, then delete the lock file in order to prevent it from running if it already is. The lock file is generated but never deleted, my knowledge is if it creates it as user "user" then it should be able to delete it as that user as well.

Any thoughts? Much appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2169

Answers (2)

hakre
hakre

Reputation: 198206

Instead of calling the php from within the cronjob, call a shell script which is calling the php file then.

You can then change the environment the script is running in w/o the need to change the cronjob and you can easier test-drive the cron command (as you can just call the shell-script).

You can then, in the shell script, change the directory where the php-script expects to be in which will most certainly solve your issue.

Additionally you can change ini directives, handle logging and shell error handling, like piping STDERR to a file etc.

This is not exactly your problem, but the information given in this question might solve your issue: How can I force PHP Version for Command Line?.

Upvotes: 1

Gilles Quénot
Gilles Quénot

Reputation: 185851

Try to put the full path of PHP, or define the PATH variable in the first lines of crontab:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Edit : moreover, you can log your script like that :

* * * * * cd /home/dir/public_html; /usr/bin/php -f file.php; &>/tmp/file.log

Upvotes: 3

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