By rubenlech
Hi,
I try to create new server and add in User Data command to create new cron task.
My code:
sudo apt-get install cron
(crontab -l ; echo "* * * * * php /var/www/html/test.php") | crontab -
When I run ‘nano /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root’, I get :
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (- installed on Wed May 24 08:27:25 2017)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
* * * * * php /var/www/html/test.php
Unfortunelly server doesn’t run my test file. PHP syntax in file is correct, because when I run it via browser everything work propelly.
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You shouldn’t need to attempt to install cron as it’s already part of the distro.
That said, try using:
echo "* * * * * php /var/www/html/test.php" | crontab
You can then confirm that the scheduled task exists by running crontab -e.
I setup a test script using the same command and it did exactly as expected.
<?php
$file = '/usr/local/src/test.log';
$date = date('Y-m-d') . PHP_EOL;
$file = file_put_contents( $file, $date, FILE_APPEND );
All it’s doing is appending $date to a new line in test.log every minute.
After 10 minutes, the file looked like:
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
2017-05-24
At which point I deleted the task since it was working as expected.
…
You’ll need to make sure you have the CLI package installed for your PHP version. Since this is executing from the command line, that package is required.
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