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

[Cog Rusty]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
> Hi Cog,
>
> Thanks for the reply. First let me say that the following command is now
> working fine on the account I was having trouble with:
>
> 15 * * * * curl --silent --compressed http://example.com/cron.php >
> /dev/null 2>&1
>
> Here are two commands that I tried previously. The first command is the one
> that is working on other accounts. The second one was recommended by my VPS
> host tech support, but it didn't work either on the troubled account.
>
> 15 * * * * /usr/bin/php -q /home/<account_name>/public_html/cron.php
>
> 15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/<account_name>/public_html/cron.php
>
> I'm still curious. Of course it is less urgent now that curl is working for
> me. And based on the handbook page that you sent me to, the curl way seems
> to be more of a best practice.
>
> Shai


Hmm... so the question now is why /usr/bin/php -q
/home/[blah]/cron.php didn't give you a path error "Failed opening
'./includes/bootstrap.inc" etc on the other server but only on this
one.

I don't really know, maybe they have something which automatically
changes php's working directory to the scipt's directory... but this
is only a guess. Maybe you could write a small test script printing
the working directory to test this hypothesis.


> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
> wrote:
> > > Thanks cog I'll try that.
> > >
> > > I'm doing it the other way on several accounts on the same server and it
> is
> > > working. Why would it work on some accounts and not on others.
> > >
> > > Shai
> > >
> >
> > What are your cron commands? Do they have identical form?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > >  On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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