Re: cron job problem

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:51 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: > On 10/23/2012 6:57 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:36 -0400, Jim Giner wrote: > > > >> On 10/23/2012 6:18 PM, David OBrien wrote: > >>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Daniel Brown <danbrown@php.net> wrote: > >>> > >>>> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Ashley Sheridan > >>>> <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Crontab is the daemon which runs cron jobs, and some distros have set up > >>>>> special files called cron.daily (or daily.cron I don't recall), > >>>>> cron.hourly, etc to make it easier to schedule jobs. > >>>> > >>>> Quick clarification and correction here: > >>>> > >>>> The cron *daemon* is crond, while the *script* that is > >>>> batch-processed by cron is called the crontab. When it is executed, > >>>> it is referred to as a cron job. > >>>> > >>>> That said, Ash is right about the rest. Different OS flavors > >>>> (BSD, Linux, UNIX, SunOS/Solaris, HP-UX, et cetera) often use > >>>> different path and file standards. Linux, in general, uses a command > >>>> crontab which opens the local user's > >>>> environment-configured editor > >>>> to modify the user's crontab in the spool. > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> </Daniel P. Brown> > >>>> Network Infrastructure Manager > >>>> http://www.php.net/ > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >>>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.phpô©gx
:ÖŽ > >>>> Ûåꧠ > >>>> > >>>> > >>> script runs > >>> ntp updates server time > >>> script runs again? > >>> > >> But why now? This process has been running just fine for months. > >> > > > > > > Have you tried removing the job entirely from cron and re-adding it? It > > might be enough to kick-start the process into behaving. > > > Yes my host asked me to do that earlier. And nope - no better. > > I have told them it's gotta be something on their end because I tested > the script from a browser displaying what it was doing and it ran fine. > Removed my debug settings and ran it from a browser and again it ran > fine. Re-scheduled the cron task and it ran wrong. > It does sound like it's definitely a problem their end. Could you alter the script in some way to check for a token set on the correct schedule? Or, perhaps rename the script and set up the cron to it again, so that if there is a secondary link to it in cron it will fail, and might give you an idea about where it's being called from. I know this is all a crazy attempt to prove it's a problem with the hosting, but from experience they can sometimes be slow to recognise it without a lot of definite proof. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk