[support] Cron Unable to Access Database

[Cog Rusty]

Just to add, in case you wonder why lynx or wget or curl but not php,
notice what the Handbook says in http://drupal.org/cron, in the
paragraph starting with "Note that it is essential to access cron.php
using a browser". A domain name and not a file path must be specified,
so that Drupal can figure out which site's database to access.


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:07 PM, sander-martijn <lists at severeddreams.com> wrote:
> try
>
>  17 * * * *  /usr/bin/lynx -source http://example.com/cron.php
>
>  or
>
>  17 * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://example.com/cron.php
>
>
>
>  Shai Gluskin wrote:
>  > Fellow Drupallers,
>  >
>  > Cron isn't working.
>  >
>  > This is the job I have set up:
>  >
>  > 17 * * * *  /usr/bin/php -q /home/<account_name>/public_html/cron.php
>  >
>  > (account_name is replaced with the actual account name.)
>  >
>  > I'm using cpanel x3 advanced pane set-up.
>  >
>  > At 17 minutes after every hour I get the automated e-mail cron report
>  > telling me that the script was unable to access the database.
>  >
>  > When I go to: /admin/logs/status, not surprisingly, cron has not been run.
>  >
>  > When I navigate via a browser to: example.com/cron.php
>  > <http://example.com/cron.php> cron runs normally and is reported as such
>
> > in /admin/logs/status.
>  >
>  > Other cron jobs in different accounts (also Drupal installations) on the
>  > same server are working fine.
>  >
>  > I'm running Drupal 5.7.
>  >
>  > Thanks for the help.
>  >
>  > Shai
>  > content2zero <http://content2zero.com>
>  >
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