Cron Job with WebCalendar 1.0.2

[Deacon]

I have talked to support, who could not immediately resolve this issue. I was told that they'd get back to me. Not as of yet.

What is the Cron Job command line to execute the "send_reminders.php" file in WebCalendar?

Before you ask me to search the knowledge base and/or research it on the web, know that I've spent at least two hours trying a variety of things...and support spent 30 minutes while I was on the phone, and nothing works as of yet.

Whenever I execute the file through its URL directly in a browser it works flawlessly, sending test reminders that I've entered for the purpose.

Thanks in advance for a quick response...

Deacon

[2notch]

Have you tried wget?

This cron job is what I use to update a news site each hour:

0 * * * * nice wget -q -O /dev/null "http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/webcalendar/send_reminders.php

To get it to execute every 30 minutes:

00 * * * * nice wget -q -O /dev/null "http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/webcalendar/send_reminders.php
30 * * * * nice wget -q -O /dev/null "http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/webcalendar/send_reminders.php

If "send_reminders.php" has includes, you may have to build a short php script with the includes and call "send_reminders.php" in that script. Then you would set the cron job to call your new script.

[Deacon]

Thanks, I tried this format before BUT without the 'nice' prefix. Let's see how these work...

Deacon

[Deacon]

No go.

Nothing. Matt??????

Deacon

[mattznyc]

What happens when you try wget? What error do you get that makes it a "no go"?

[Deacon]

It's hard to say what I get. Right now the machine that I do all this on won't recognize port 80 so I can't work on it. Maybe tomorrow.

Deacon

[Deacon]

Back on the desktop.

Here's what I've done to make this work...everytime. I've set the URL to the send_reminders.php file to load automatically via a tab in Firefox. So you can see that if the page loads, the internal scripting is working properly, including the settings.php, which is called and is in the folder, too.

Now, to get the url to load using the Cron Manager.....IOW, give me the surrounding syntax and, with my url, it should work.

Deacon

[anyhotcountry]

This is the non wget option.

*/15  * * * * cd /home/user/calender/tools; ./send_reminders.php

Can't remember if I had to chmod +x send_reminders.php

I had to change the shebang to #!/usr/bin/php -q

And also added the following hack:

chdir(".."); // HACK
include "$includedir/config.php";

[Deacon]

We'll try it, though I can't really undestand the full syntax...

Deacon