Cron Job For Moodle

[amansker]

I'm a newbie that needs to run a cron job on a reseller account. I read everything I can find in this forum and documents from Moodle. So far no luck with different emailed results like: (this is just a temporary setup until I move it to the real domain)

 

15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php

/bin/sh: line 1: 15: command not found

 

<****@server47> /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php

/bin/sh: line 1: /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php: No such file or directory

 

and perhaps the most successful:

<****@server47> /usr/local/bin/php /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php

Could not open input file: /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php.

 

A direct URL to the file runs fine. The file is located as shown in the path above.

 

Moodle info is here:

http://moodle.org/doc/?file=install.html#cron

 

It seems like this would work:

15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/andymansker/moodle/admin/cron.php

 

 

Any help is appreciated!

[TweezerMan]

It looks to me like the server path to the cron.php isn't quite right - the public_html directory is missing from the path. I think your cron command should be the following:

>php /home/andymansker/public_html/moodle/admin/cron.php

[amansker]

FIXED!Thanks David. I finally looked at an installation of Gallery and found the correct path is:

 

/usr/local/bin/php /home/username/public_html/pathtocron/yourcron.php

 

The actual domain name is not used.

Edited May 29, 2005 by amansker

[amansker]

This info should go into a FAQ or tutorial since it is not available at this time and a Help Ticket resulted in:

 

Please be advised that the help desk does not provide developer level support for the building of html code or web pages including third party scripts.

 

Who can do that?

[TweezerMan]

Your problem was figuring out the correct server path to a particular file on your account. That question could have been answered by either the Help Desk or these forums. I don't know what you put in your Help Desk ticket, but if it looked like your first post in this thread (asking how to set up a cron job for Moodle), their response was the correct one.

[amansker]

Your problem was figuring out the correct server path to a particular file on your account. That question could have been answered by either the Help Desk or these forums.

 

 

1. I did post in this forum - I appreciate your response, but it was the incorrect path.

 

2. Before posting in this forum I did a thorough search of the forum, knowledge base and external sites. After clicking submit Help Ticket, I followed the suggested link to a Linux site and reviewed information, but could not find the answer.

 

3. The subject on the Help Ticket is "Cron Job Path." I simply asked for the path from cPanel and included my previous attempts and results. They kindly suggested it was a permissions problem.

 

4. I reviewed my original post and see your point - should have clarified the issue in subject. I just wasn't sure if my path was the problem or it was something else.

 

I have invested two hours of my time to figure this out and it might save someone some time if it was documented in a FAQ/tutorial/knowledge base.

[TweezerMan]

1. I did post in this forum - I appreciate your response, but it was the incorrect path.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I made my best guess based on the limited info you provided. You didn't provide the working URL to your cron.php, nor did I have any way of knowing that the "andymansker" you were including in the path was not your CPanel username - that you were guessing at that part of the directory path.

 

4. I reviewed my original post and see your point - should have clarified the issue in subject. I just wasn't sure if my path was the problem or it was something else.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Taken all together, the error messages indicated to me that the path to cron.php was not correct, but not everyone sees the same things I do at the same time.

 

I have invested two hours of my time to figure this out and it might save someone some time if it was documented in a FAQ/tutorial/knowledge base.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I'm sorry you spent 2 hours on an issue that could have been resolved in 5 minutes, had the issue been framed correctly. Questions about the proper server path to a script or file are answered here in the forums all the time, so I don't know what else to tell you.

[amansker]

David,

Are you an employee of TCH? or a volunteer?

Andy

[TweezerMan]

I don't know what that has to do with this topic, but I volunteer my time to be a moderator in these forums.