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

[Cog Rusty]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Followup to add: Another obvious question when accessing cron.php as a
file is which site's database will be updated in case of a multisite.


>
>  > 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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