My cron job keeps failing in cPanel:
/bin/sh: /opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/etc: is a directory
I have changed the code, previously it was /usr/local/bin/php
This is the full code:
0 0,12 * * * /opt/cpanel/ea-php73/root/etc /home4/***/****.org/api/fetch.php
Does anyone know the reason? The file fetch.php works fine otherwise. How do I know where the PHP command is?
If you want to run a PHP file in a cron job, you should run with the PHP interpreter. But your error shows that the cron job is running by the Bash interpreter.
This means you have issue with this part /opt/cpanel/ea-php73
You should either revert your interpreter back to /usr/local/bin/php
Or you can use the curl command to run the webpage from an external source.
Eg: 0 0,12 * * * curl ****.org/api/fetch.php
In the PHP script, you're directly executing an incorrect shell command. Probably a missing / prefix in a path.
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As implied in the title, the Cron Job is supposed to execute a php file (update.php, to be specific). The php file then writes to a csv file stored in the same directory.
I have the time set to * * * * * so that it executes every minute. The command is written as follows:
php -q /home//public_html/wallboard/update.php
I don't believe this is causing any errors, though it also doesn't seem to write to the CSV file. When I visit update.php in a browser, however, it executes and writes to the CSV file immediately. I'm not experienced with Cron Jobs and I'm sure there's an issue, but I don't know what exactly that issue is. Let me know if you have suggestions/questions. Any help is appreciated!
Current Command:
* * * * * usr/bin/php -q /home/<user>/public_html/wallboard/update.php
update.php:
<?php
include('lib/HelpDeskView.php');
include('lib/WallboardDisplay.php');
include('helpdesk.csv');
$helpdesk = new HelpDeskView();
$text="\r\ntest,test,test";
file_put_contents( "helpdesk.csv" , $text, FILE_APPEND);
Since your script resides in your public_html directory you can use wget for your Cron Job
wget -O - -q https://yoursite.com/wallboard/update.php
-O - output is written to the standard output in this case it will go to the email address you specify in CPanel
-q quiet mode
IMHO the best way is to contact support and ask them about command line syntax.
This is how I'm doing it at my linux server using cPanel.
This runs script.php which is stored in public root. Course, replace <username> in command line with your username.
At another server I'm using same command line with /usr/bin/php instead of php at the beginning of line, but I'm aware that not all servers use same command line. Some require php-cli in command line instead of php, some don't "like" -f argument, etc. So try various combinations.
To find more suggestions check out this SO topic too: Run a PHP file in a cron job using CPanel
Important thing: When trying different commands wait at least a minute (this case) to see if it works because Cron doesn't fire your script immediately.
Try to execute the same command in PHP CLI and check if it gives you any error, you might be missing some libraries or references required for CLI execution.
/usr/bin/php -d register_argc_argv=On /home/USERNAME/public_html/DOMAIN/artisan AMIR:HOME
I'm using Cron to run a script every minute.
My cron.php is located in
/var/www/test.com/public_html/cryptointerface/cron.php.
Using Crontab (crontab -e) I defined the setup as:
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/test.com/public_html/cryptointerface/cron.php
I let the cursor in an empty line right after this one.
After saving I got the message: installing new crontab.
The problem is that although syslog suggests that Cron is executing, it does not have the supposed effect. cron.php contains very basic code for writing something to file.
There is something that I'm missing, however I don't know what. All this is in a Ubuntu server.
I have a simply php script on my server and want it to be run every 2 minutes using a cron job.
*/2 * * * * http://mydomain.com/_adder.php
I suspect the command syntax is wrong.
Do I need to add a command before the script url? Another way to run the script?
Any help is very much appreciated.
the cron-job will simply execute a program on the (local) machine.
a URL is NOT a program. it's a link to a ressource.
whether this ressource triggers a PHP-script execution is not of cron's business.
in any case, you could run a cron-job that will periodically visit a given URL. e.g. using the wget command (a "non-interactive web-page downloader")
*/2 * * * * wget --quiet -O /dev/null http://mydomain.com/_adder.php
you can do it as umläute suggest, but being a local file it's actually faster to access from command line php like this:
*/2 * * * * php /path/to/file/_adder.php
there are differences running a script from the command line vs via a browser that may effect the script.
you may need the full path to php on some systems
use php-cgi to make GET request similar to a web browser .
/usr/bin/php-cgi /your_path/_adder.php
if you're using Linux you can use which php-cgi to locate for php-cgi or search for php7.2-cgi if php 7.2 installed on your machine or search using different version . for Windows users search for php-cgi.exe .
I have a PHP script that runs perfectly fine on the command line if I simply run it like this php /path/to/script/script.php.
if I now schedule this very command in cron using crontab -e and the add the line:
*/1 * * * * php /path/to/script/script.php 2>&1 >> /var/log/logfile.log
it does get executed every minute as expected and all the output gets put into the log file just like running it on the command line. But the some parts of the script just don't seemt o work. those particular parts are lines that are like:
system('mkdir /mnt/temp', $retVal);
or
exec('mkdir /mnt/temp');
I have tried every possible thing like running it as root, permissions on all scripts and folders that would be affected, using /bin/mkdir instead of mkdir. The return value from the system() is 0 for running it on CLI and 1 for the crontab way.
Any suggestions?
I couldn't solve the CLI vs crontab issue, but the solution that worked for me was to use a bash script inside of cron. And that bash script in turn calls the PHP script. this works like a charm under any of the users that I need to run the script.
So I can't say that it is or isn't a permissions issue.
Thanks for all your comments guys
I am running Ubunutu Linux server, PHP5, Apache2 and am having trouble getting any sort of cronjob to run through the crontab.
I edit the crontab using
crontab -e
I save the file I want to run:
*/5 * * * * php /home/user/public_html/crx/cronx.php
it saves fine. I can run the file from the console and goes through fine. I can't even find any existing logs for the file. I checked cron was running, stopped and started... no change.
The current php file is just a simple test script that inserts a single line into a database.
I checked the permissions for the file and has read and write. Am absolutely stumped. I can't seem to get ANYTHING to run through cron. Is there something I can run to test permissions?
EDIT
I have also tried the following command
/usr/bin/php /home/user/public_html/crx/cronx.php
I used whereis php and which php to locate and confirm it is all running in the right area
You have too many * values for your times.
Also, cron may not have a PATH set up correctly to use PHP.
Instead try:
*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /home/user/public_html/crx/cronx.php
Where /usr/bin/php is the actual path to PHP. From the console you can run which php to see the path to the PHP binary you should use.
EDIT: Here are a couple of more things to try in order to troubleshoot:
# see if cron is running just by having it create a file
*/5 * * * * touch /tmp/crontab-$(date +%s)
Another option:
Set the permissions of your PHP script to 755, and change the beginning to:
#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
// rest of script
Then change your cron tab to:
*/5 * * * * /home/user/public_html/crx/cronx.php
I'm still not sure if cron is the issue or the running of the PHP script.