How Do Crons work??

[eternal-empire]

I will be using crons. But how you you set them up??

What kind of command do you give it?? Command in what language?? Please tell me everything I need to know about crons

Thanks for your help

 

[Corey]

There is a cron section in cPanel, pick the beginner button. It does not have it's own language and whatever script you're using should tell you how to set it up.

-Corey

 

[uptime2]

Can I ask what is the path to PHP? I'm on the intermediate php version and I tried several options suggested on the forum here to no avail (/usr/bin/php, php -q, php-adv-cron, etc.).

 

[Bryon]

/usr/bin/php-cron

 

[uptime2]

Hmm, doesn't seem to work. I have

/usr/bin/php-cron /home/uptime/public_html/path.php

as a test that calls mail(), but I see nothing.

Edit: Weird, it just started working just now. Thx!

 

[eternal-empire]

As far as I have understood from the documentation. All I have to do is mention the filename and nothing else. Example:

/php/cronfiles/run.php

-------------------------

Will that work?? Or do I need a "-cron" or something after it??

 

[Corey]

Try php-cron /home/user/public_html/run.php

Of course replacing the above with your user name and the location of the file.

-Corey

 

[kajasweb]

Is that same for all the users. I'm in Advanced PHP Configuration, and just used

php /home/user/public_html/file.php

But, I do face some problems. The output states Memory Limit Exhausted (8MB Limit). How can I increase it.. Or, I have to use php-cron???

 

[Corey]

Use php-cron ...

 

[kajasweb]

Oops!!! I'm getting an error using "php-cron".

The output email has the following message. How to resolve this issue? Please help me.

Warning: include_once(./includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/myistop/public_html/cron.php on line 9

Warning: include_once(): Failed opening './includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/x10hosting/php2/lib/php') in /home/myistop/public_html/cron.php on line 9

Fatal error: Call to undefined function drupal_bootstrap() in /home/myistop/public_html/cron.php on line 10

Thanks in advance,

 

[jpf190279]

Kajasweb it looks like you are trying to include files that php can't find, are you sure that they are located at that addres?

try

include_once('

either
../includes/bootstrap.inc
if the file is located in a previous directory tree branch or

or
include/bootstrap.inc
if it is located on the same branch of the tree but further down.


');

see what that does.

-J

 

[kajasweb]

i have changed to

../includes/bootstrap.inc

But still, I'm getting the same error message.

Also, I don't think Drupal coding is wrong. Just go through the error message again.. there is something related to include path. Is there any thing that PHP Configuration does in this issue ?

Corey has to help.. :-(

 

[jpf190279]

Silly question but have you requested your account to be upgrades from basic php to intermediate? Includes are only available with intermediate setup.

Barring that, try seeing if you just include a basic php script from an area you know like

create file bob.php put bob in a folder called include in your root directory

in bob.php type

<?
function helloimbob()
{
echo "Hello I'm Bob";
}
?>

then save and close

then open a new file called test.php in the root directory, one below include, there type

<?
include('include/bob.php'); //Points to the file you want to include
helloimbob(); //call includes function
?>

save and close.

run test.php in the browser it should barring my sillyness show Bob!

 

[Corey]

Not sure why it's not working like that, you can test what jpf190279 said if you want.

Also try using the full path to the file for example if your includes dir is in your public_html folder. Change the path to:
/home/myistop/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc

-Corey

 

[fahimtm]

Simple....
eg.

curl http://yoursite.hostingsite(pcriot or whatever).com/home/yourusername/the file of which you want to add a cron job to.

Make sure you put in how many minutes, days, seconds etc.

 

[kajasweb]

okay.. i'll try and post if i have any probs...