Cron Issue

tonythemediaguy · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 12

Hello,

The problem I'm having is the path of the cron. After I set it up, I got an email from the cron that says:

/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/local/bin/php: No such file or directory

So I logged into my server as root and looked for the php folder (I didn't set any of this up) and changed the cron to this. So now I get an email once an hour that says:

/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/lib/php: is a directory

Why is it telling me it's a directory over and over. Does this mean that it's the wrong directory? How do I find the correct php folder?

Thanks,

Tony

esoft_ian · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Posts: 5275

Hi tonythemediaguy,

The cron job needs to point to the full path of php. So if PHP is in /usr/lib/php, the path would be /usr/lib/php/php. Though that would be a set up I have not seen before. It is more likely /usr/bin/php. Some commands that may help you find PHP. .. these can be typed at the command prompt..

1) type php
2) which php

Let me know if this doesn't correct the issue.