We already know why there are deprecated PHP warnings while running an old piece of code under PHP 8.0
The PHP code with legacy issues will be updated by someone new about to be hired.
For now, we just want php being run out of a cron to use the settings we have in php.ini:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
This isn't working. Every time the cron runs, it will email the deprecated warning.
* * * * * php /usr/local/cron.php >> /usr/local/cron.log
Someone claimed in an online forum that for PHP run at the command line,
as it would be for a cron, it doesn't have this control over error reporting.
I don't know if that is accurate.
As a solution for the time being, I've added 2>&1 >> /dev/null
to the end of the cron line. But it would be better to use the php error_reporting
preference if we could.