On Feb 6, 2008 9:36 AM, Robbert van Andel <robbert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I guess I spoke too soon. Even though the script runs from anywhere (that > I > have access too), when I put the perl script in a cronjob, the php script > just refuses to run. There's no output, just the output from the perl > script. And yes, I did set up the perl script to print the output of the > php script. Any ideas? Is there some special consideration I have to > give > to the fact that my PHP installation is setup as a CGI? I've never had > this > much trouble getting a PHP CLI script to run. there are 2 ways to run a php cli script. the first is to prefix the name of the script with php; eg php backup.php if you are specifying this in a cron job, you will have to supply the full path to the php interpreter, which you can find via which php (sorry jocheem, i know you already said that, but my system doesnt have php5, only php [even though its 5] so i thought id mention it again) that is the way i prefer to do it but i wont elaborate as there is no point now. the second way is to make the script executable; this is a 2 step process. the first step is to prefix the contents of the file with #!/path/to/php/binary where the path is the same as earlier, found via the which command. the second step is to mark the script as executable, hopefully you are familiar enough to do that yourself, but just to test it as the user who created it, you can do simply, chmod u+x backup.php i suspect in your case the cron job doesnt know the path to the php binary, ive encountered this before; although its strange its still occurring within the perl script; however i cant help you with that ;) o, btw; here is the relevant page in the manual http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php -nathan
