Cron task error messages
Hi there--I've set up a standard Cron task via Plesk for a fresh Drupal 5.7 site. I'm able to run cron manually without any issues. However, when I try to run it automatically via crontab, I receive the following status email:
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 2: //: is a directory
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 4: /aquota.group: Permission denied
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 5: anon_ftp: command not found
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 6: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/var/www/vhosts/brendalawrence.com/httpdocs/cron.php: line 6: ` * Handles incoming requests to fire off regularly-scheduled tasks (cron jobs).'
Any suggestions?
Near the bottom of
Near the bottom of http://drupal.org/cron it says:
"Using a browser" here means wget or lynx or curl, according to the examples on that page.
A cron task which tries to run the cron.php file directly with a file path (instead of an URL) won't work. For one, it does not refer to any specific site (or database). Also, the error messages show that the Drupal-relative paths contained in cron.php are wrong when it is run this way.