Topic: Problems running bash script via crontab

[nb69]

Hello,

I'm running SME 6.01.

I've got a crontab entry that runs a script to extract various RSS feeds and write to an HTML file.

My Contrab Entry looks like this:

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/home/e-smith/files/ibays/rss/html/donow >> /dev/null 2>&1

The actual script for "donow" is :

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/usr/bin/php -q /home/e-smith/files/ibays/rss/html/crawlrss.php > /home/e-smith/files/ibays/rss/html/index.html


It runs every 4 hours ok. And the html file is created. But there is no content.

When I run the script from the shell, got no problems. Even when I "sudo -u root" its ok from the shell.

Anyone know why cron is having problems?

Thanks!

[CharlieBrady]

I've got a crontab entry that runs a script to extract various RSS feeds and write to an HTML file.

My Contrab Entry looks like this:

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/home/e-smith/files/ibays/rss/html/donow >> /dev/null 2>&1
...

When I run the script from the shell, got no problems. Even when I "sudo -u root" its ok from the shell.

Anyone know why cron is having problems?

Remove the redirection of error output to /dev/null and you will probably find out.

[nb69]

Hi ,

thanks for the reply. I removed the redirection. Not getting any messages. And the html is not not being build by cron.

Any thoughts?

[CharlieBrady]

Any thoughts?

Try:

env - /usr/bin/php -q \
  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/rss/html/crawlrss.php

[nb69]

Hi,

ok, tried that command. Now it no longer works from the shell

[nb69]

Now, I've changed permissions to all the php files to have execute on. And now it works from the shell again. I just don't get it. It works perfectly on another server (debian based) without all this hassle.

But as soon as cron executes it, it creates an incomplete html file.

[nb69]

If anyone wants to give the script a try you can grab it from here:

http://lastrss.webdot.cz/

Its a pretty cool RSS php class.

Thanks.