[support] My Week for Cron Problems -- this time "failure to open

[Cog Rusty]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> This time I get the following in the cron email:
>
> > Warning: main(./includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such
> file or directory in /home/cmp/public_html/cron.php on line 9
> >
> > Warning: main(): Failed opening './includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion
> (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in
> /home/cmp/public_html/cron.php on line 9
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: drupal_bootstrap() in
> /home/cmp/public_html/cron.php on line 10


You must run cron.php not as a file, but by accessing its URL with a
local browser (wget, lynx, curl), as explained here:

http://drupal.org/cron

The cause of this error is that you are running cron.php directly with
php, so the current directory is not drupal and the "./" paths turn
out wrong.


> Thanks,
>
> Shai
>
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