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I am trying to setup a cron job on my Linux server.

I have the following code

*/1 * * * * root php -f /var/www/html/includes/cron/cron.inc.a.php &> dev/php.log

The file the cron job is meant to call, gets a heartbeat response from another server.

<?php

    $l = new MySQLi();

    $l->connect(blah);

    $q = $l->query("SELECT * FROM `tbl_latency_stats`");

    set_include_path('/var/www/html/includes/');

    include("ping/ping.php");

    $host = '<IP ADDRESS>';

    $ping = new Ping($host);

    $latency = $ping->ping();

    if (!is_bool($latency)){
        if(is_float($latency) || is_string($latency)) {
            if(is_string($latency)){
              $s = split(".", $latency);
              if($s[0] >= 100){
                $response_array['status'] = "success";
                $response_array['state'] = "WARNING"; 
                $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
                $response_array['response'] = "High Latency";
                $response_array['ping'] = "$latency";
                $response_array['message'] = "null";
              }else{
                $response_array['status'] = "success";
                $response_array['state'] = "UP"; 
                $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
                $response_array['response'] = "LIVE";
                $response_array['ping'] = "$latency";
                $response_array['message'] = "null";
              }
            }elseif(is_float($latency)){
              if($latency >= 100){
                $response_array['status'] = "success";
                $response_array['state'] = "WARNING"; 
                $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
                $response_array['response'] = "High Latency";
                $response_array['ping'] = "$latency";
                $response_array['message'] = "null";
              }else{
                $response_array['status'] = "success";
                $response_array['state'] = "UP"; 
                $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
                $response_array['response'] = "LIVE";
                $response_array['ping'] = "$latency";       
                $response_array['message'] = "null";    
              }             
            }
        }else{
            $response_array['status'] = "error";
            $response_array['state'] = "UNKONWN"; 
            $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
            $response_array['message'] = "Unexpected Response!";
            $response_array['response'] = "$latency";
            $response_array['ping'] = "null";       
        }
    }else {
        $response_array['status'] = "error";
        $response_array['state'] = "DOWN"; 
        $response_array['timedate'] = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
        $response_array['message'] = "Request Unreachable!";
        $response_array['response'] = "$latency";
        $response_array['ping'] = "null";
    }                       

    $q = $l->query("INSERT INTO  `enigmaStat`.`tbl_latency_stats` (`latency_stat_id` ,`latency_stat_date_time` ,`latency_stat_status` ,`latency_stat_response` ,`latency_stat_latency_value` ,`latency_stat_user_text`)VALUES ('' , '".$response_array['timedate']."' ,  '".$response_array['state']."',  '".$response_array['response']."',  '".$response_array['ping']."',  '".$response_array['message']."')");


?>

But nothing inserts. I have run the file from the website path and manually through command line as follows:

php -f /var/www/html/includes/cron/cron.inc.a.php

and it inserts into the database.

I'm new to server configs etc. so I apologise if this is not detailed enough, I would be happy to add any details necessary to help solve the issue.

Thanks.

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Edit

Following the wiki I have tried:

env -i sh -c 'php -f /var/www/html/includes/cron/cron.inc.a.php'

and it works and inserts into the database.

Answer 1

Optional flags are sometimes required for a PHP cron job:

*/1 * * * * php -q /var/www/html/includes/cron/cron.inc.a.php &> dev/php.log