Cron jobs - Permission denied or no such directory.

[Ninjabear]

I've tried searching for the answer to this on the forums but couldn't so here goes. I've tried adding a Cron job to Cpanel (standard mode) and added this as my path:

/home/nibinear/public_html/mmf/cron.php

There are no htaccess files in here so it should be accessible. I also double checked the file manager for the dir and it popped up fine. When doing this test I received permission denied.

Secondly I tried http://www.managemyflats.co.uk/cron.php instead just to see if I could get a direct link to work (also tried no http://). Except here I got "no such file or directory".

Please could you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Ps. I added this to the very top of my php file, perhaps it's wrong:
#!/usr/local/lib/php -q

[eUKhost.com]

Hi Daniel,

I have added same cron from my side and it has worked. I'm not sure what went wrong when you were trying to add it, but it has worked now.

Please check from cpanel control panel to see how the cron has been set. I've set the cron to run at 1:01 AM daily.

[Ninjabear]

Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

Hi Daniel,

I have added same cron from my side and it has worked. I'm not sure what went wrong when you were trying to add it, but it has worked now.

Please check from cpanel control panel to see how the cron has been set. I've set the cron to run at 1:01 AM daily.

Yes that works. I was putting this in my php:

#!/usr/local/lib/php -q which you put as
/usr/local/bin/php -q before the actual directory in cron form.

I don't know whether it has to be done this way but thanks anyway for getting it sorted out, will do some testing and post any further queries but that should be it.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by Ninjabear

Yes that works. I was putting this in my php:

#!/usr/local/lib/php -q which you put as
/usr/local/bin/php -q before the actual directory in cron form.

I don't know whether it has to be done this way but thanks anyway for getting it sorted out, will do some testing and post any further queries but that should be it.

Hi Daniel,

I didn't notice /lib/ in your original post.

I hope everything is perfect now.

You can use php -q /home/....... as well instead of full path to php binary.

[Ninjabear]

Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

Hi Daniel,

I didn't notice /lib/ in your original post.

I hope everything is perfect now.

You can use php -q /home/....... as well instead of full path to php binary.

Cheers. Yes it is all working, I have cron jobs sorted out now. I'm going through the video tuts in Cpanel so that I won't have to keep bothering you!

Ps. This might be a stupid question but is there an easy way of learning where all these directories are? Most Linux servers seem to be set up in a similar way.

[eUK-Ralf]

Hello Daniel,

You don't have permission to access the server side directories. As you are on shared server. Default path of php is /usr/bin/php Or /usr/local/bin/php on the server. If you want to access such directories, you need to upgrade your package to VPS or Semi-Dedicated one. Where you will get root access to the server.

[Ninjabear]

Originally Posted by eUK-Ralf

Hello Daniel,

You don't have permission to access the server side directories. As you are on shared server. Default path of php is /usr/bin/php Or /usr/local/bin/php on the server. If you want to access such directories, you need to upgrade your package to VPS or Semi-Dedicated one. Where you will get root access to the server.

You misunderstand me. I don't want to access such directories and just want to know where they are for tasks like this.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by Ninjabear

You misunderstand me. I don't want to access such directories and just want to know where they are for tasks like this.

Hi Daniel,

You will need to understand Architecture of Linux to learn more about Libraries and Binaries.

I'll try to include all that I know about Linux Architecture.

/etc is mainly used to store all configuration files. ( Ex. grub.conf, named.conf, exim.conf, shadow, groups, userdomains, localdomains, network configuration files and all other configuration files )
/usr/local/bin or /usr/bin mainly stores binaries which can be executed by root user as well as end-users.
/var/lib/ stores Libraries which are mainly used by system RPM's and packages only. end-users are not allowed to directly access this Libraries. This directly also contains /mysql/ which stores all databases. Databases run under ownership of mysql user only. end-users cannot access the databases directly.
/usr/local/apache/ is required by the Apache web server.
/usr/share/ssl/ is used to store private keys which are matched with the public keys. public key is on user end which comes through the browser and data is displayed on end-users computer or data is stored on the server only once both keys match.
/home/ is the home directory of users where user accounts are created and your web data as well as emails are stored in this directory.
/tmp/ stores sessions and temporary files.

There's so much which can be added to the list, but you need to understand what I have mentioned so far to proceed to the next step.

[Ninjabear]

Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

Hi Daniel,
There's so much which can be added to the list, but you need to understand what I have mentioned so far to proceed to the next step.

That's a very generous reference, thanks a lot.

Dan

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by Ninjabear

That's a very generous reference, thanks a lot.

Dan

You are welcome

Let me know if you want me to add more info to what I have posted so far. There's so much in Linux which you can't post at a time.