Re: Cron running 'Hello world' script dies with "Could not startup."

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:01:41 -0500, Ray Hauge wrote: > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:01, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema wrote: >> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:01:42 -0500, Ray Hauge wrote: >> > On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:47, Ivo F.A.C. Fokkema wrote: >> >> > Does the user running the cron have permission to execute the php >> >> > binary? >> >> >> >> Yes, the file's owner is me and it's my crontab. Also, I've made >> >> the >> >> file readable to all, just in case. All directories up the directory >> >> tree are readable/executable, as well. >> > >> > I think he's asking if the php program is executable to you, the user. >> > It is possible that it would only have execute for owner and group, not >> > other. >> >> Sorry, yes, The PHP binary is executable by all. Actually, I'm very sure >> the error message "Could not startup." is generated by PHP-cli. When >> googling on that exact message, I found it in the PHP-cli source code >> (including the period at the end). However, I cannot determine from the >> PHP-cli source code what's up. > > It looks like when you run the script, then it works just fine, but it blows > up when you run it through cron. > > Two things I would check: > > 1) Cron can read your *.php files. > > 2) Cron can run php > > to test #2, have cron do a php -i and see what happens. 1) was OK, but 2) didn't return anything, not even an error... this has started me thinking, and when using -ni it works...! -n makes PHP-cli ignore the .ini file. When looking at my .ini file, the modification date is July 31st, the day it all stopped working. I need to leave now, but will investigate tomorrow to see what's up with my .ini files, on both machines, and check if my scripts run with -n or after tweaking of the .ini. Thanks!