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hi 2 all. I have one problem - I use laptop as web-server, for development (Mint 13 Maya). Here is some cron: "* * * * * php /home/user/webServer/test.php". And it doesnt work. But if I use "php /home/user/webServer/test.php" in the Terminal, it works perfect. I test it throught ssh. So, why cron dont work?

Moving it here, as I think the users knowledgeable about cron are here.

Does php produce some logfile? Else you may want to wrap this in a small shell script to ensure you output any stderr or stdout output. Partial example of that is here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 16#p481766.

In which file did you put that cron line?

AlbertP wrote:In which file did you put that cron line?

I use crontab -e

xenopeek wrote:Moving it here, as I think the users knowledgeable about cron are here.

Does php produce some logfile? Else you may want to wrap this in a small shell script to ensure you output any stderr or stdout output. Partial example of that is here http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 16#p481766.

No log files. Connect to database, insert into valuses

By default it indeed may not save things in a log file, but Vincent posted an how-to to save all the output of the terminal command to a file. Then you can find the output - maybe including an error - in the file.

AlbertP wrote:By default it indeed may not save things in a log file, but Vincent posted an how-to to save all the output of the terminal command to a file. Then you can find the output - maybe including an error - in the file.

not errors - I run it manually, script works.

But maybe it does display an error when cron tries to run it. That's what the how-to of Vincent is for.

thanks, it works