On Apr 24, 2008, at 1:26 PM, John Almberg wrote:
The trouble comes when I try to run this script with cron. I have
something like this in the gs user crontab:
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/
local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/gs/bin
HOME=/home/gs
0 15 * * * /home/gs/bin/script.php >>/home/gs/log/script.log
I can see from the cron log that cron runs script.php at the
appointed hour:
Apr 24 15:00:03 on /usr/sbin/cron[72414]: (gs) CMD (/home/gs/bin/
script.php >>/home/gs/log/script.log)
I believe that you are going to be better off writing a trivial
wrapper like:
-----
#! /usr/local/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/
local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/gs/bin
# ...other env variables you need...
touch /home/gs/log/script.log
/home/gs/bin/script.php >> /home/gs/log/script.log
-----
...and invoking this wrapper from cron instead of trying to reset the
shell and everything from within cron. You can test things by doing
an "su gs -c /bin/sh" from a root login and then trying to run your
wrapper, which will give you a minimum environment closer to what cron
executes under.
--
-Chuck
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