By pnlnl on

Earlier, i made this post Cron /bin/sh: www.mysite.com/cron.php: No such file or directory>, and the main issue of that one has been solved, but i am still stuck with no cron working, a suggestion has been made to use this handbook but i am not able not get it working...
I requested there:

so i am back, now i am trying to use the code provided by the handbook page...

and i need help of how to specify the root path which is by default
root_path=/var/www/html/
and in the file manger i can see
/home/mysitename
so how should i input the the path?

So i need help to get this hack-around working.... or can someone provide another method?

A few more things to re-iterate, i am getting
"/home/mysite/public_html/scripts/cron-curl.sh: line 4: curl: command not found" with curl and i have changed the address inside the file to indicate to www.mysite.com/cron.php
I am getting nothing when i set up the cron job to the lynx(more clarification: i am not even getting the log email, and nothing appears on the site logging system)
One thing to add: when i tell the cron to run directly the cron.php file i am getting:

/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 2: //: is a directory
/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 3: /**: No such file or directory
/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 4: access-logs: command not found
/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 5: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/pslegion/public_html/cron.php: line 5: ` * Handles incoming requests to fire off regularly-scheduled tasks (cron jobs).'

so any suggestion or help is appreciated. Thanks in advance

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pnlnl commented

sorry i should have previewed before submitting, here is the correction for the first line i wrote

Earlier, i made this post and the main issue of that one has been solved, but i am still stuck with no cron working

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pnlnl commented

I am trying out some tricks

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pnlnl commented

I want to thank you all for your wonderful support and insightful suggestions :p(don't get shocked I am talking about the last post related to this one)
now i am able to run cron using this
/usr/bin/php -q /home/mysitewhichispslegion/public_html/cron.php
i can verify that cron is running by the log messages, but my concern now lies with the report message, have at what i am getting:

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in <b>/home/mysitewhichispslegion/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>899</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/mysitewhichispslegion/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc:899) in <b>/home/pslegion/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>899</b><br />
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vanvemden
Location San Francisco
commented

Hi,

I'm getting the same warning after running cron:

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in <b>/home/xxx/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>899</b><br />
<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/xxx/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc:899) in <b>/home/xxx/public_html/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>899</b><br />

Did you have any luck fixing it or finding out what caused it. Thank you!

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pnlnl commented

i wasn't able to fix it...
then i tried to use the php /home/xxx/public_html/cron.php, but this one uses the php memory, so it causes downtime, therefore i sticked with the curl method, and i am getting this error on every cron run, but the site is still working properly, no slowdown, you can see it here....
but you may want to re-open this issue as i had a long history of questions on these forums, so i think that most of the regulars here avoid responding to my questions... and keep me posted if you find a solution, i almost forgot about the error, but now that i remember it, it would be nice to fix it.

ps: if you have a big php memory limit (ala not on shared hosting), you may want to run cron directly via php, it is not recommended but you'll avoid getting these errors.

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darumaki commented

I get those errors on Drupal 6

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eff_shaped commented

I've had the same cron warning message:

<br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent in <b>/home/xxxxx/public_html/_drupal_test/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>1019</b><br /> <br />
<b>Warning</b>:  session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/xxxxx/public_html/_drupal_test/includes/bootstrap.inc:1019) in <b>/home/xxxxx/public_html/_drupal_test/includes/bootstrap.inc</b> on line <b>1019</b><br />

After my server host advised me to create this crontab with php -f at start:

php -f /home/xxxxx/public_html/_drupal_test/cron.php

Interested to see if anyone can advise. I'll be looking on google for answers also.

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mariacha commented

This is the only code I got to successfully run without the error:

cd '/home/USER/public_html/DRUPALROOT' ; php 'cron.php'

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totocol commented

I am now getting the same message. The interesting part is that it only started happening after a few days of cron running normally with the initial command I entered. Would that have something to do with the hosting company changing any setting in the server. I have not changed anything from my side.

If anyone has any luck finding out more about this error I'd love to know.

Raul
raulcaceres.me

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eff_shaped commented

I contacted my host again (their previous advice had not worked); they then suggested this command for the crontab:

/opt/curlssl/bin/curl -s http://mysite.org.uk/_drupal_test/cron.php

I entered the above line in the crontab command field, through my c-panel (with standard view).

And it's FIXED!!!

My server set up is this (if useful):
Apache version 2.2.8 (Unix)
MySQL version 4.1.22-standard
PHP version 5.2.6
Perl version 5.8.8

Can give more info, if anyone wants it.

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e102938 commented

Thanks a lot) This worked for me. But i used

wget -q -O temp.php http://mysitedomain/script.php

i found this line in my host's faq.
Also used c-panel, and crontab with standard view.

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scott859 commented

The cron command I had in place initially (below) was running successfully for months. Then all of a sudden started producing errors (using Bluehost as a shared server):

GET http://example-drupal-site.com/cron.php

Changing it to what you suggested worked:

/opt/curlssl/bin/curl -s http://example-drupal-site.com/cron.php

Thanks!