CronJob & PHP

[neugi]

Hi,

i've got a script that writes a file to the server. if i run it from the webserver it works okay and writes the file to the server.

but if i run it as an cronjob with this command "php -f /var/www/tmi/output.php" it won't create a file on the server.

do i have to use a other command that the php script writes the file to the server?

best

[hvle]

yes, you can use a perl script instead.
PHP run with world permission (module). So unless you set the folder to world writable, It will not create any files.  Perl instead, running with server core, (i don't know whatever you called it), but it can write file anywhere. 
So yeah, if you're unconfortable to chmod your folder to 0777 (which is not recommended), you can use a perl script instead.

[kenrbnsn]

When you run PHP from a cron job, you can specify the user that the script runs under. Do that and your script will be able to write files with compromising the security of your system.

Ken

[hvle]

My host use vdeck 2.0 and it did not have option to specify which user permission for php to run under.  Is there anyway of doing that within the script?

[neugi]

Hi,

i run the cronjob as user root so this user should have rights to write data to the server.

all the other stuff is done (read from database) but no file is created

best

[ShogunWarrior]

Maybe the cron job should be run as [b]www-data[/b] so it has server write access?

[neugi]

with user www-data there is also no wirting of the file :(

best

[ShogunWarrior]

Is there a way to specifiy the working directory for the cron job?