sphider cron job indexing trouble

[danthemilk]

I know crontab is working on my mac, because I set up a job that simply sends an email to me via php file on my desktop. However, when I use the same format to execute the "spider.php" file in the admin directory it appears to do nothing. At this point, I'm guessing it is a problem related to the use of relative paths in the spider.php file.

 

my crontab looks like this:

 

* * * * * php /path/to/spider.php -all

 

any guesses as to why this isn't doing anything?

 

if I replace it with this other crontab the test email file functions fine.

 

* * * * * php /path/to/send_me_email.php

 

I posted this on the sphider forums as well http://www.sphider.eu/forum/read.php?2,627.

thanks!

[JonnoTheDev]

run the script from the command line on your mac (from the root directory /) and you will see if there are any errors

php /path/to/spider.php