On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Hamlet wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've got a problem that's just a tidbit annoying. I've got a neat little php
> script to keep my home network running. At one point in this script it's
> required to reboot the machine the script is running on, and this I'm trying
> to do with exec("reboot").
>
> Now, I run the cron job as root, and if I try "php <? exec("reboot"); ?>
> from console it works fine. But not when cron tries to. I've got my
> suspicions as to cron doing something kinky with the permissions, and
> therefore permissions are not enought for php to execute the reboot command.
>
> I've been at this all day, suggestions are more than welcome.
It's not certain that the "reboot" command is in your PATH environment
variable when cron is running. Try adding a line similar to the one below
in the beginning of your cron script, or specify the full path when you
use exec() in PHP.
PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
Regards,
-\- David Eriksson -/-
"I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology."
- Linus Torvalds
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