Crontab logs

[Nathan England]

Most people do not include the correct crunch bang in their code to make 
the file work simply by making it executable. (chmod a+x /path/to/file)

If the file does not have the crunch bang (#!/usr/bin/php -q (for php))
then you can execute it by prefixing with php, and the file does not 
need to be executable.

Sounds like you are getting along just fine.

On 2015-07-20 15:48, Keith Smith wrote:
> I have 4 other php scripts running without the wget or the php.  The
> script is running.  I looked at the owner and permissions on another
> php script that is working via cron and it was owned : user:apache and
> has permissions of -rwxr-xr-x .  I changed both and now the script
> runs.
> 
> I have always thought you need wget at the start of the cron string.
> However I did not add it to any of the user crontabs.
> 
> The first line of my script is #!/usr/bin/php -q.  Doesn't that cause
> the script to run via PHP?
> 
> I'm still curious why the failed attempt by cron to run the script did
> not show up in the logs?  /var/lib/cron
> 
> Thank you for your help!!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2015-07-20 15:36, Nathan England wrote:
>> Just to be clear, is this a command line php script?
>> 
>> If so, you need to execute it with php first.
>> 
>> 36 * * * * php /path/to/script/script.php
>> 
>> 
>> If this is a php web page, you need wget or curl to get it
>> 36 * * * * wget http://yourdomain.com/script.php
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2015-07-20 15:28, Keith Smith wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I'm on CentOS 6.6 and created a user crontab ( crontabe -e ).  I 
>>> added
>>> the line to run a PHP script at 36 after the hour.
>>> 
>>> 36 * * * * /path/to/script/script.php
>>> 
>>> Had a path wrong so it was failing.
>>> 
>>> Was looking in /var/log/cron and it did not show the error.
>>> 
>>> What am I missing?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!!
>>> Keith
>>> 
>>> 
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