Cron jobs

[lazysheepmedia]

Guys

I have set a cron up and it does not seem to work. i get this message when it si run

/bin/sh: http://www.lazysheepmedia.com/uptime/check5min.php: No such file or directory

I have also tried it as absolute path and I get the error

/home/lazyshee/public_html/uptime/check2min.php: line 1: ?: No such file or directory
/home/lazyshee/public_html/uptime/check2min.php: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `0'
/home/lazyshee/public_html/uptime/check2min.php: line 2: ` error_reporting(0);'

Any help appreciated

Regards

Mark

[jimbug]

Originally Posted by lazysheepmedia

Guys

I have set a cron up and it does not seem to work. i get this message when it si run

I have also tried it as absolute path and I get the error

Mark

You are asking bash to execute PHP.

Usually you run PHP this way from cron...
* * * * * php -q /home/lazyshee/public_html/uptime/check2min.php

sometimes...
* * * * * wget http://www.lazysheepmedia.com/uptime/check5min.php


Remember to set...
MAILTO=""
... to where any output is mailed to or add...
>/dev/null 2>&1
... to the end of the script to suppress any output.

[jimbug]

A few years ago I wrote a couple of shell scripts that monitor uptime and load average. The load average one emails you, with the current uptime and a ps list, if the load average gets above a certain level and the uptime one saves the uptime to a text file on the server. If there was a reboot since last check, it saves a line with the reboot time and the total uptime of last boot, also.

PM me if you want me to email them to you.

I run them every 15 minutes. They have little impact on the server.

Sample uptime...
Server rebooted: [ Wed Sep 5 01:51:02 PDT 2007 ] Last uptime: .65 days
06:07:01 up 42 days, 4:16, 2 users, load average: 0.52, 0.48, 0.59 [ Wed Oct 17 06:07:02 PDT 2007 ]
Server rebooted: [ Wed Oct 17 11:21:04 PDT 2007 ] Last uptime: 42.39 days
12:07:01 up 9 days, 19:55, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.34, 0.24 [ Sat Oct 27 12:07:02 PDT 2007 ]
Server rebooted: [ Sat Oct 27 16:53:02 PDT 2007 ] Last uptime: 10.02 days
00:07:02 up 29 days, 8:15, 0 users, load average: 4.20, 2.89, 2.29 [ Mon Nov 26 00:07:06 PST 2007 ]
Server rebooted: [ Mon Nov 26 00:24:04 PST 2007 ] Last uptime: 29.35 days
12:07:01 up 18 days, 11:43, 0 users, load average: 0.35, 1.04, 1.41 [ Fri Dec 14 12:07:03 PST 2007 ]

[lazysheepmedia]

Hi Jim

I have tried both and it returns the same error in ssh

-bash: anaconda-ks.cfg: command not found

I have tried both versions to no avail

Thanks

Mark

[jimbug]

Hi Mark,

I know nothing about your server or the PHP script you're running. Apparently it's executing some shell commands. I try to run only shell scripts from cron. I think shell scripts have a lower impact on the server. I would suggest you debug the PHP script before running it with cron. And maybe rewrite it as a shell script.

I don't know much more to say.

[lazysheepmedia]

Thanks Jim

I think it is back to the drawing board to fix it

Thanks for your time

Kind regards

Mark