Question

I have a cron set to run a php file but for some reason it doesn’t work when the time comes. I can manually call same file in terminal and it works fine. No error message as well.

Note: There are many more jobs set for different folder&files and they all work fine. Permissions are same as well.

Thanks

CRON

30 2 * * 1,2,3,4,5 php /var/www/html/cronjob/update-db.php

PERMISSIONS

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root      4096 Nov 20 10:17 cronjob

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5808 Nov 21 17:21 update-db.php

• conn.php is being used by many other cronjobs and works fine.
• this code works fine when I call run it in terminal.
• every other cronjob works fine apart from this.

CODE

require_once "/var/www/html/dbfolder/conn.php";


function write_log($message)
{
    $filename = 'update-sis-assessment-column-log.txt';

    if (file_exists($filename))
    {
        $handle = fopen($filename, 'a');
    }
    else
    {
        $handle = fopen($filename, 'w');
        //chmod($filename, 0644);
    }

    fwrite($handle, $message . "\r\n\r\n");
    fclose($handle);

    exit;
}

if (connectDB() === true)
{
    $query = "SELECT.......";
    $rcset = mysql_query($query);

    $terms = null;

    if (@mysql_num_rows($rcset) > 0)
    {
        while ($records = mysql_fetch_array($rcset))
        {
            if (ctype_digit($records['Term']))
            {
                $terms .= "'" . substr($records['Term'], 0, 4) . "-01', ";
            }
        }

        $terms = substr($terms, 0, -2);
    }

    write_log('DONE : ' . $terms);
}

Answer 1

make sure that the php executable is in your path OR put the full path to php in the cron job like

30 2 * * 1,2,3,4,5 /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cronjob/update-db.php 

if you are not sure where php is located you can run

which php

to get the path