[SOLVED] Cron Jobs.

[seany123]

I really don't know where this goes on this forum... but anyway.

 

with my hosting cpanel i made a Cron job or tab... that basically runs every minute and goes to the following...

 

/home/maf10000/www/index.php

 

but when i get my confirmation email through to say if the cron worked or not i get this message....

 

/bin/sh: /home/maf10000/www/index.php: Permission denied

 

does anyone know why its not working?

[trq]

Does the script have the execution bit set? eg; chmod'd 744 ?

 

Also, make sure the script has a shebang line...

 

#!/usr/bin/php

[seany123]

well looking on the cpanel the file index.php has file permissions 0644

 

what is that shebang thing? and what do i do with it?

[trq]

644 is non executable, it needs to be at least 744.

 

The shebang line tells the shell what program to use to execute the script. It needs to go on the first line and tells the shell to use php (Linux doesn't car about file extensions).

[seany123]

okay now im getting this error:

 

/home/maf10000/www/index.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory

/home/maf10000/www/index.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `"lib.php"'

/home/maf10000/www/index.php: line 2: `include("lib.php");'

 

 

this is the top of my index.php

 

<?php
include("lib.php");
define("PAGENAME", "Index");

 

[seany123]

Does anyone know how to fix this???

[trq]

Again, you need to add the shebang line at the top of your script. Without it, bash itself tries to execute php which will not work.

[seany123]

does that go inside the <?php tags?

 

if so then it just seems to work as a comment.

 

and if its outside of the <?php tags then its being displayed on the index.php page as just text.

[trq]

It goes outside the <?php tags because it has nothing to do with php.

 

As for the shebang displaying... is this when you call the same script via http? Shell scripts are just that, you shouldn't try and execute them via http.

[seany123]

well this is where im going to have a problem then... index.php as in the name is my index page... (first page)

 

i need the cron to visit that page and allow it to run the included files.

[trq]

Then you'll need to call the script via http. You can use wget for this. eg;

 

wget http://yoursite.com/index.php