Reblog Script Cron Probs

[erikzett]

Ive got the Reblog Script installed on my server. Works fine in a manual mode. But when I try to use the cron job w/ the reblog.pl Im getting path errors.

 

Heres what my cron job looks like:

 

/usr/bin/perl /home/myusername/public_html/mt/reblog.pl

 

 

error is:

 

Can't locate MT.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /home/*******/public_html/mt/reblog.pl line 15.

 

Can anyone help me - thanks alot

 

 

Edit: TCH-Bruce - removed user name

[TweezerMan]

From what I can tell by reading the instructions and looking at the reblog code (I do not have reblog installed on my site):

 

1) reblog.pl is not meant to be called directly, such as from a cron job. The first thing that any script calling on MT needs to do is tell perl where MT's /lib and /extlib directories are, and reblog.pl does not have any code which does this. This is the direct cause of the error message you're seeing. (MT.pm is in your public_html/mt/lib directory, but perl can't locate it because public_html/mt/lib isn't in perl's library search path.)

 

2) reblog.pl should be located in your plugins directory (public_html/mt/plugins), not your MT directory (public_html/mt). The purpose of reblog.pl is to provide the necessary plugin hooks into MT, which it can only do from MT's /plugins directory (because that's the only place where MT looks for plugin code).

 

3) If you were going to try to call a reblog script in a cron job, it looks to me like reblog_import.pl would be the one to use (which should be in your MT directory (public_html/mt)). reblog_import.pl does have the necessary code to tell perl where MT's /lib and /extlib directories are.

 

To use reblog_import.pl:

 

1) reblog_import.pl needs to be executable (its permissions set to 0700 or 0755).

 

2) There are two parameters in the script that you need to edit before you can use the script:

 

a) Line 7 - RB_BLOG_ID - the ID number of the blog you want to import into

 

Line 10 - RB_AUTHOR_NAME - the MT login name of the user you want to import new entries as

 

3) Cron job should be set up with following command line:

>cd /home/cpanelName/public_html/mt; ./reblog_import.pl

(where cpanelName is your CPanel username).

 

This script does produce output, pretty much like what you see in your browser when you do a manual import. Cron will interpret this as an error message and e-mail you whatever the script outputs every time it runs. If you would prefer not to receive these e-mails, set up your cron job with the following command:

>cd /home/cpanelName/public_html/mt; ./reblog_import.pl > /dev/null

Hope this helps...