Moodle in English: Cron Problem :(

Cron Problem :(

by T L - Thursday, January 15, 2004, 11:24 PM

Hi. I am new to cron jobs and I had one setup through my host. Each time it runs I get an error message and I asked them to see if they could fix it but they basically told me it was my problem and to fix it myself. I am really lost as to what to do sad Here is the email I receive once the cron job has tried to execute:

/home/anointe/public_html/classes/admin/cron.php: ?PHP: No such file or directory

/home/anointe/public_html/classes/admin/cron.php: ///: is a directory

/home/anointe/public_html/classes/admin/cron.php: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `(i'

/home/anointe/public_html/classes/admin/cron.php: line 7: `/// This file is best run from cron on the host system (ie outside PHP).'

Re: Cron Problem :-)

by John Gone - Friday, January 16, 2004, 2:17 AM

Hi Tia,
Is it possible for you to post here the exact cron used?
example:

*/5 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php

Also some server info and anything else you can think of that may help? Also your hosting provider address as this may be very helpful?

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Re: Cron Problem :-)

by Theo Stone - Tuesday, January 27, 2004, 12:11 AM

Thanks John. I had a similar problem as Tia and your sample works brilliantly on my server. big grin

Cheers, Theo

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Re: Cron Problem :-)

by John Gone - Wednesday, January 28, 2004, 4:42 PM

Hi Theo,
Glad you resolved the Cron issue. The example isn't mine though, it was lifted directly from the Moodle Documentation and was written by Martin.

Happy Moodling

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Odp: Cron Problem :(

by Greg Szczotka - Saturday, March 26, 2005, 10:04 PM

Have you sorted it out? I have the same problem?

Regards,

Greg

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