Cronjob command help required

[hamid84]

Hi All,

I have a few scripts that should run every 30 mins.

This one pulls the stock level/quantity

php -q /home/softhand/public_html/cronImports/' ; php -q all_xml_product_list_client.php -p processqueue > /dev/null ;

and then this one should export the pulled data into db

php -q /home/softhand/public_html/cronImports/xlsImportBK.php -p processqueue > /dev/null ;

These are the commands in my cronjob but not working as expected so i have to run the files manually.

Do i need to change the command? Thanks in advance

[dbltoe]

just because it runs manually does not mean it will run from cron. cron requires fully qualified file names, use variables where possible and fully qualify you’re commands too! use /usr/bin/gzip rather than just gzip. it takes some testing.

Watch for stray or un-escaped characters as well.