Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?) to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart. Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet - thought I'd ask around first. Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical? -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On 10/23/2012 4:56 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?) to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart. Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet - thought I'd ask around first. Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical? Yes - same msg same time -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: Yes - same msg same time If it wouldn't be a problem, can you provide the script here (or on a site like Pastebin), as well as the crontab time entry for this? While checking the crontab, make sure a duplicate entry for this wasn't somehow added. In the event that you'd like to keep this information from the archives and general mailing list (and depending on the security implications based upon what's divulged, I'd recommend it), I invite you to send it to me privately, off-list, and I'll take a look at it later tonight or tomorrow morning. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 16:59 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 4:56 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?) to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart. Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet - thought I'd ask around first. Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical? Yes - same msg same time Are they definitely only in the cron list once? Could someone have tried to help by adding the job into the daily.cron, but forgotten to remove it from the regular crontab? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 17:12 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 5:19 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 16:59 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 4:56 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com wrote: I have a php script that has been triggered by my hoster's cron process(?) to run once a day since last March. It's been running fine - and I've made no changes to it. Suddenly in the last couple of days it is running twice it seems. The whole process sends an email at its conclusion and the receipient tells me today that she's getting two emails only a minute apart. Any ideas on why this might happen? I haven't contact my host company yet - thought I'd ask around first. Though not really a PHP question, there are several reasons this could happen, including a race condition that is being encountered due to a slowdown of the host system or changes to the system's environment. Are the emails she's receiving identical? Yes - same msg same time Are they definitely only in the cron list once? Could someone have tried to help by adding the job into the daily.cron, but forgotten to remove it from the regular crontab? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk daily.cron? regular crontab? Don't know of what you speak. This is my only cron-initiated task. My provider gives me a screen to enter the command and the desired time to run it and it's been that way for months. I have had no need to change it so I'm surprised this is happening. Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. As you're entering this through a control panel (presumably a web-based one?) I would guess that's not the problem. It could be that the hostings control panel software has had a hiccup? -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php script runs ntp updates server time script runs again?
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php script runs ntp updates server time script runs again? But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:36 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php script runs ntp updates server time script runs again? But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. Have you tried removing the job entirely from cron and re-adding it? It might be enough to kick-start the process into behaving. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On 10/23/2012 6:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:36 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php script runs ntp updates server time script runs again? But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. Have you tried removing the job entirely from cron and re-adding it? It might be enough to kick-start the process into behaving. Yes my host asked me to do that earlier. And nope - no better. I have told them it's gotta be something on their end because I tested the script from a browser displaying what it was doing and it ran fine. Removed my debug settings and ran it from a browser and again it ran fine. Re-scheduled the cron task and it ran wrong. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job problem
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:51 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:36 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. Quick clarification and correction here: The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, it is referred to as a cron job. That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command `crontab` which opens the local user's environment-configured editor to modify the user's crontab in the spool. -- /Daniel P. Brown Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php script runs ntp updates server time script runs again? But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. Have you tried removing the job entirely from cron and re-adding it? It might be enough to kick-start the process into behaving. Yes my host asked me to do that earlier. And nope - no better. I have told them it's gotta be something on their end because I tested the script from a browser displaying what it was doing and it ran fine. Removed my debug settings and ran it from a browser and again it ran fine. Re-scheduled the cron task and it ran wrong. It does sound like it's definitely a problem their end. Could you alter the script in some way to check for a token set on the correct schedule? Or, perhaps rename the script and set up the cron to it again, so that if there is a secondary link to it in cron it will fail, and might give you an idea about where it's being called from. I know this is all a crazy attempt to prove it's a problem with the hosting, but from experience they can sometimes be slow to recognise it without a lot of definite proof. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] cron job style php...
Russel, Yes you can run a cron job on php You may have to add a line like this at the top, it has been awhile since I have done it] #! /usr/local/php/sapi/cli/php this line would be different for your system -Randy - Original Message - From: Russell P Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: [PHP] cron job style php... I have written a simple script that when a date in an array matches todays date, it sends an email (notifies me when bills are due). Any ideas on how to make this run once a day? Can you do a cron job on a PHP prog? Russ Jones -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] cron job style php...
I have written a simple script that when a date in an array matches todays date, it sends an email (notifies me when bills are due). Any ideas on how to make this run once a day? Can you do a cron job on a PHP prog? It can, and run basically like any other shell script. The first line needs to be the dash-bang that point to your PHP binary. #!/usr/local/php/bin/php ?php Note that the opening tag is required. No closing tag is required. Note that you can/should compile PHP to contain the CLI binary (new releases do). You can check what kind of PHP binary you have using -v: Shell /usr/local/php/bin/php -v To keep track of scripts that I run under Apache, versus those that run on the command line, I use the .psh extension on those that run on the command line. --- Hans Zaunere President, Founder New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org Gmail: The 1gb spam catcher -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job style php...
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:00, Russell P Jones wrote: I have written a simple script that when a date in an array matches todays date, it sends an email (notifies me when bills are due). Any ideas on how to make this run once a day? Can you do a cron job on a PHP prog? Russ Jones Never tried it but on linux (RHL or Fedora) I would add a file to /etc/cron.daily with something like this in it /usr/bin/php /usr/local/bin/myjob.php where myjob.php is the php script. if it runs from the command link now it should work. This will run as root of course and if you wnated it to be run as someone else you could probably add the line: 0 2 * * * username /usr/bin/php /usr/local/bin/myjob.php to /etc/crontab or the users crontab without the username field. hth Bret -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job style php...
Check out here - http://www.htmlcenter.com/tutorials/tutorials.cfm/155/php/ and here - http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/28/0.php and if you want to read about my learning with cron try here - http://www.khankennels.com/blog/index.php?p=103 Hope it all helps. Respectfully, Ligaya Turmelle Russell P Jones wrote: I have written a simple script that when a date in an array matches todays date, it sends an email (notifies me when bills are due). Any ideas on how to make this run once a day? Can you do a cron job on a PHP prog? Russ Jones -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] cron job for php not working
[snip] I am trying to install following cron job: 0 6 * * * php /home/www/project/app_cron/follow_up_new_members.php The script works, if I run this php /home... line manually it works out, but it does not automaticaly at 6 am as supposed. I do also see in /var/log/messages that the cron job has happened at that time, but the file did not generate the emails like it supposed to. [/snip] At the command line type which php and it will return the full path to php. Modify your line in the crontab with the full path... 0 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/www/project/app_cron/follow_up_new_members.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job for php not working
On Thursday 20 May 2004 11:35 am, Jay Blanchard wrote: At the command line type which php and it will return the full path to php. Modify your line in the crontab with the full path... 0 6 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/www/project/app_cron/follow_up_new_members.php I always put the #!/usr/local/bin/php at the top of all my command line php scripts. Mine is actually #!/usr/bin/php. Then chmod 755 the file so that it can execute. James Hicks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job for php not working
It looks like that cron line is making it so that the command runs as the user php... so, you should check if that user has permission to run the script. Tim. At 08:33 AM 5/20/2004, Merlin wrote: Hi there, I am trying to install following cron job: 0 6 * * * php /home/www/project/app_cron/follow_up_new_members.php The script works, if I run this php /home... line manually it works out, but it does not automaticaly at 6 am as supposed. I do also see in /var/log/messages that the cron job has happened at that time, but the file did not generate the emails like it supposed to. I am running the crontab as webserver user. Thanx for any helpful ideas on that, Merlin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] cron job
[snip] Is there a way to run a script (to check a table for new fields, or to check time..etc) evrey few hours, without using programes souch as crontab. [/snip] You could run a looping script with a sleep statement in it, not a good idea though. Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job
Hello, This is a reply to an e-mail that you wrote on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 17:59, lines prefixed by '' were originally written by you. Is there a way to run a script (to check a table for new fields, or to check time..etc) evrey few hours, without using programes souch as crontab. Paul GnuPG Key http://sgi.rdscv.ro/~paulm/paulm.PGP Using a cron job is by far the best bet, if you are not allowed cron jobs on the webserver do you have access to another computer that you can run cron jobs on (you could call the PHP script using lynx from the other server). A work around is that you could have an include in each of your pages that checks the time and decides whether to do the tasks you were going to do in the cron job. This will only work if you have a busy site and if your cron job does not take long to execute though. David. -- phpmachine :: The quick and easy to use service providing you with professionally developed PHP scripts :: http://www.phpmachine.com/ Professional Web Development by David Nicholson http://www.djnicholson.com/ QuizSender.com - How well do your friends actually know you? http://www.quizsender.com/ (developed entirely in PHP) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] cron job
Is there a way to run a script (to check a table for new fields, or to check time..etc) evrey few hours, without using programes souch as crontab. In addition to what others have said, you don't _have_ to set up the cron job (or any scheduled job) on the same computer as your scripts. If you have a Cable/DSL connection, you could set up a cron job on your own computer to connect to http://www.yourdomain.com/cron.php and run it when you need it. If you have windows, you can even do the same thing with Task Scheduler. Yeah, it makes things a little more difficult, but it's doable. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Cron Job help Needed
Do a search at google for cron jobs tutorial... http://www.google.com/search?q=cron+job+tutorials That should give you lots to read... :) -- Ray On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:36, Pushpinder Singh Garcha wrote: Hello All, I need to ask you about some resources for cron jobs. Please suggest some online help Thanks Pushpinder Singh Garcha _ Web Architect -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CRON JOB
MAAS wrote: What do I have to do before I can run my file.php as a cron job in Linux? What problem do you have? I have no problems with it calling it as php myfile.php -- Best Regards. -- QaDRAM Studio, RAD development for the web http://studio.qadram.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] CRON JOB
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 20:51, MAAS wrote: What do I have to do before I can run my file.php as a cron job in Linux? search archives for cron. -- Jason Wong - Gremlins Associates - www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design Hosting * Internet Intranet Applications Development * /* Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] CRON JOB
[snip] What do I have to do before I can run my file.php as a cron job in Linux? [/snip] Look at the archives for the past couple of days, it has been covered in some detail. Make sure to compile PHP without apsx, and for practical purposes move the PHP executable to the /usr/local/bin directory. Then put this as the first line of the PHP file you want to run from a CRON; #!/usr/local/bin/php Then set up your CRON. HTH! Jay Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. * * Want to meet other PHP developers * * in your area? Check out: * * http://php.meetup.com/* * No developer is an island ... * * -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] CRON JOB
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Jay Blanchard wrote: Look at the archives for the past couple of days, it has been covered in some detail. Make sure to compile PHP without apsx, and for practical purposes move the PHP executable to the /usr/local/bin directory. Then put this as the first line of the PHP file you want to run from a CRON; #!/usr/local/bin/php Then set up your CRON. Might want to add the -q flag to the php bangpath invocation. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Cron Job
This is an inappropriate question for this list. I would suggest either a book on learning Unix (almost any flavor will do) or seeking any number of Linux mailing lists for questions concerning the OS. -Original Message- From: karthikeyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Cron Job Hi, How do i set cron job on Red Hat Linux. Looking forward for yours response. karthikeyan. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
