Cron Error Problem

i was running into this problem on several sites, too. after many hours i switched the permissions for cron.php to 755 and it worked.

have you tried changing the permissions?

Mark Sanders
Q Collective

Why is something writing to cron php? You should not have to have cron.php as 755. It should work fine as 644.

Hi there!

Everytime I run cron I get an error of one page that exists at my webserver. The page is located at a different folder not at the same folder where's cron.php

As you can figure... I can't send newsletters because they are sended with cron.

I've seen the cron.php content and it only have this:

// $Id: cron.php,v 1.36 2006/08/09 07:42:55 dries Exp $

/**
 * @file
 * Handles incoming requests to fire off regularly-scheduled tasks (cron jobs).
 */

include_once './includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
drupal_cron_run();

What can I do?

Thanks,

Luis

I was pondering this for some time before I had a sudden realisation whilst falling asleep.

wget will output what it retrieves into a file of the same name in the directory the command is being executed from. e.g. if you run wget http://example.com/cron.php, it will try to write the stream it gets to cron.php. This can result in a 'cannot write to cron.php' error, depending on directory permissions.

Instead, try this:

wget -O /tmp/cron http://example.com/cron.php

where /tmp is a temporary folder with 666 permissions.

This will force the output of wget to save to /tmp/cron each time, and will avoid the 'cannot write to cron.php' error.

Jack