Help needed with cron job

Hi,

I can manually run a file on my webserver and it completes its action
fine.

I am trying to run this with a cron job via the GUI interface for cron
on cpanel.

This is the error I'm getting:

/home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: ?php: No such
file or directory
/home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: //: is a
directory
/home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: //: is a
directory
/home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: line 4: syntax
error near unexpected token `explode('
/home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: line 4: `$stimer
= explode( ' ', microtime() );'

Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

zeebop

On 15 Aug 2005 2054 GMT, Kim André Akerø
<kimandre@NOSPAMbetadome.com> wrote:

>zeebop wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can manually run a file on my webserver and it completes its action
>> fine.
>>
>> I am trying to run this with a cron job via the GUI interface for cron
>> on cpanel.
>>
>> This is the error I'm getting:
>>
>> /home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: ?php: No such
>> file or directory
>> /home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: //: is a
>> directory
>> /home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: //: is a
>> directory
>> /home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: line 4: syntax
>> error near unexpected token `explode('
>> /home/condomch/public_html/catalog/admin/froogle.php: line 4: `$stimer
>> = explode( ' ', microtime() );'
>>
>> Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
>
>What does the very first line of your froogle.php file look like?

First few lines are as follows:
<?php
// Start TIMER
// -----------
$stimer = explode( ' ', microtime() );
$stimer = $stimer[1] + $stimer[0];
// -----------

zeebop wrote

> First few lines are as follows:
> <?php
> // Start TIMER
> // -----------
> $stimer = explode( ' ', microtime() );
> $stimer = $stimer[1] + $stimer[0];
> // -----------

You need a shebang line before the PHP. Typically:

#!/usr/bin/php -q

<?php
> // Start TIMER

To find the path to PHP (in the shebang line) type this command:

whereis php

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Charles Sweeney wrote:

> zeebop wrote
>
>> First few lines are as follows:
>> <?php
>> // Start TIMER
>> // -----------
>> $stimer = explode( ' ', microtime() );
>> $stimer = $stimer[1] + $stimer[0];
>> // -----------
>
> You need a shebang line before the PHP. Typically:
>
> #!/usr/bin/php -q

However, as per my previous post, you don't want that there if the
script is /also/ to be run from the web server, otherwise the shebang
line will output to the browser. If this is the case then you can run
the script by calling /path/to/php /path/to/script

> <?php
>> // Start TIMER
>
> To find the path to PHP (in the shebang line) type this command:
>
> whereis php

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Chris Hope wrote:

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> zeebop wrote
>>
>>> First few lines are as follows:
>>> <?php
>>> // Start TIMER
>>> // -----------
>>> $stimer = explode( ' ', microtime() );
>>> $stimer = $stimer[1] + $stimer[0];
>>> // -----------
>>
>> You need a shebang line before the PHP. Typically:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/php -q
>
> However, as per my previous post, you don't want that there if the
> script is /also/ to be run from the web server, otherwise the shebang
> line will output to the browser. If this is the case then you can run
> the script by calling /path/to/php /path/to/script
>
>> <?php
>>> // Start TIMER
>>
>> To find the path to PHP (in the shebang line) type this command:
>>
>> whereis php
>

Oh and incidentally, I'd either forgotten or didn't know they were
called shebang lines. Hopefully I'll remember next time Thanks
Charles.

--
Chris Hope | www.electrictoolbox.com | www.linuxcdmall.com

Chris Hope wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote:
>
>> zeebop wrote
>>
>>> First few lines are as follows:
>>> <?php
>>> // Start TIMER
>>> // -----------
>>> $stimer = explode( ' ', microtime() );
>>> $stimer = $stimer[1] + $stimer[0];
>>> // -----------
>>
>> You need a shebang line before the PHP. Typically:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/php -q
>
> However, as per my previous post, you don't want that there if the
> script is /also/ to be run from the web server, otherwise the shebang
> line will output to the browser. If this is the case then you can run
> the script by calling /path/to/php /path/to/script

Quite so. You already said that.

I have made some PHP scripts that I run from cron. None are intended to
be output to a browser. I sometimes do so when I am testing them, so I
don't mind the shebang line appearing on the screen in such instances.

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

Chris Hope wrote

> Oh and incidentally, I'd either forgotten or didn't know they were
> called shebang lines. Hopefully I'll remember next time Thanks
> Charles.

)

I probably picked that up in here from some old Perl hack!

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com