crons dont work

[kolanich]

The crons don`t work!!!
the command is /usr/bin/php -q /home/kolanich/public_html/<script>
my site is on stoli

[descalzo]

On Lotus, the following works:

/usr/local/bin/php -q /home/username/public_html/crontest.php

1. Set the email notification to an address you can check. Error messages can be helpful and you can always turn it off once you get the cron job working the way you want.

2. Use absolute paths in the script. The working directory seems to be /home/username , not the directory where the script is located.

[kolanich]

1 will set
2 dont understend
what do you mean

[descalzo]

2. Use absolute paths in the script. The working directory seems to be /home/username , not the directory where the script is located.

2 dont understend
what do you mean

Say your script is in /home/username/public_html
Say you want to create a file "cron_output.txt" to append to.
If you use fopen( "cron_output.txt" , "a" ) , the file will be in /home/username , not /home/username/public_html
You should use fopen( "/home/username/public_html/cron_output.txt" , "a" )

[kolanich]

i see there is no effect
script made no action!!!
because it hasn`t been launched

[kolanich]

They really don`t work
no e-mail reports.

[Zubair]

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