Linux PHP Cron Job

[Exos]

Trying to run a php script in a command shell on Debian 6.0 (Turnkey)

Works fine on a terminal session but I'm trying to set it up as a cron job and doesn't want to play ball.

Tried

php /home/update_scripts/update.php

/usr/bin/php5 /home/update_scripts/update.php

each time I get no such file or directory in /home/update_scripts/config.php on line 3

No joy, what am I doing wrong?

This is the config.php

?php

require("../../www/config.php");

?>

 

[BadBoyR]

Where are you running it within the terminal?

Include the full path to your config require("/mydirectory/path/www/config.php");

 

[Exos]

Where are you running it within the terminal?

Include the full path to your config require("/mydirectory/path/www/config.php");

From a putty session and that works fine, but the cron job doesnt

tried the full path but then I get another message similar as that references another point.

It's not so much of an issue now to be honest as I only need to run it once to backfill some data.

 

[Rezyn]

Remember that cron doesn't inherit the .profile when you're running it. So you need to source all your environmental variables within your script.

 

[Rezyn]

I just realized my post might be fairly cryptic and geeky. If you write a wrapper script that at the very top does a:

./users/<login_name>/.profile or .bash_profile
php /home/update_scripts/update.php