On 10/11/2024 11:43 AM, John Iliffe
wrote:
On Fri, 2024-10-11 at 08:56 -0400, Steve Matzura wrote:Under some now ancient version of PHP--probably 6, I had a cron job that read: php -f {my-php-script} and it ran every day like it was supposed to. Now, under 8.3, the job did not execute any more. I removed the '-f' from the line in cron, and the job runs. What is the difference between with and without 'f' if '-f' is supposed to be superfluous?The php man page says: ------- --file file -f file Parse and execute file ------- so it looks like it should work but why the { } block? That may be confusing cron. John
the {my-php-script} was just supposed to be a placeholder for the email. The actuaql cron command is:
cd /home/tgvpadmin/domains/theglobalvoice.info/public_html && php -f mail_gallery_updates.php
With "-f" in the command, it runs, a mail message is created and
sent out by Postfix--I can see it in the mail log, but the message
never gets to the intended recipients. I removed the "-f", and it
works. Coincidence? I don't think so. Since it doesn't generate
any log, which I would get via email, I can't imagine why it
wouldn't work with the "-f" in the command. It's academic at this
point, as removing the "-f" caused it to work, so I'm leaving it
that way.
