Re: PHP + Cron jobs

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Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Waynn Lue wrote:
>> Yup, you're completely right.  I checked the cronjob and got this:
>>
>> PHP 5.2.6 (cgi) (built: Aug 11 2008 13:39:32)
>> Copyright (c) 1997-2008 The PHP Group
>> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Zend Technologies
>>    with Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) v0.9, , by George Schlossnagle
>>
>> Turns out there's /usr/bin/php, which is the cgi version, and
>> /usr/local/bin/php, which is the cli version.  So I see three possiblities.
>> 1. Change the shebang on the php script itself, 2. change the crontab to
>> reflect to path I care about, or 3. replace /usr/bin/php.  I'd prefer the
>> 3rd, but does that cause problems for me in my actual web pages?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Waynn
>>
> Depends upon whether your webserver is using the PHP CGI binary or the
> apache module.  I thought common convention was that the CGI was named
> php-cgi?
> 
> I would rename '/usr/bin/php' to '/usr/bin/php-cgi', grep your web
> server conf file(s) for /usr/bin/php and if found then change it to
> /usr/bin/php-cgi.
> 
> -Shawn
> 
Along with that, I would opt for always using the full path in the cron job.

-Shawn

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