Cron jobs not working

[AtomicRax]

I recently acquired another dedicated server, and I'm trying to setup a cronjob. I've tried several things now, and nothing is working.

I'm trying to setup a cronjob for use with a php script. I've set it up in DirectAdmin with no luck and I've set it up via crontab in ssh and still nothing!

30 2 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/user/domains/domain.com/public_html/lib/cronJob.php >/dev/null 2>&1

I've tried using just "php" instead of "/usr/local/bin/php" and still no luck!!

How ever, both commands (using just "php" or the actual path to php) work when I input them in SSH. Any ideas?

 

[zEitEr]

I believe, that's the most frequently asked question for this couple of weeks. Did you try googling on these forums?

See these links:
— http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=151603&postcount=5
— http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192723&postcount=6

 

[AtomicRax]

Well I had been doing some research, googling, etc.. most of what I was finding was about adding a first line to the PHP script so that it executes...

I've played in DA before, used many cron jobs, and used this exact php script as a cron job on another server (not DA).. I've never had this problem before. EVER

I'll try what you suggested. Thanks

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Have you checked and tryed the link zeiter provided?

 

[AtomicRax]

Have you checked and tryed the link zeiter provided?

I'll try what you suggested

yes and it worked. Thanks for the help zEitEr sorry my googling/searching skillz were failing and I didn't find the answer first..

 

[zEitEr]

You're wellcome. It's really nice to know, that it helped you.

 

[ISOS6]

Try this

wget -O /dev/null http://yourdomain/file.php

 

[zEitEr]

@ISOS6,

Did you read answer#5? It's already solved.

 

[ISOS6]

Maybe because I was here a long time and did not see the last 2 answers. But what's wrong with that?

Not bad with several suggestions and solutions anyways

The easiest is to run it remotely. When you don't think about contents of the PHP file

 

[zEitEr]

Nothing wrong, man.

It's not always true. I'll tell you why. If your PHP script will run much more longer, it can fail to finish its work because it might be aborted on Apache's timeouts or on Apache reload/restart. And that's not the only reason.