Cron Job E-mails 22 MB?

tompangborn

Good Day Everyone,

I've recently changed from using Auto Cron to setting a cron job to run from our hosted server. Everything works great if I use "* * * * *" and I get a 5 kb e-mail with each pass. However, if I use "*/5 * * * *" I get e-mails that are 22 MB! in between I might get a few of the 5 kb e-mails but for the most part they're 22 MB.

ideas?

Thanks

Tom

tompangborn

Strike that ...

It doesn't matter which command, I'm still getting 22 MB e-mails when I use cron from the server.

xrat

What's the content of these 5 KB and 22 MB messages?

tompangborn

Good Question

It's binary crappola like so ...

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xrat

Guess what ... there is something wrong : and from remote it's not apparent (at least not to me) what is wrong. What's the content of your crontab? I.e., what's the line of the cron job?

tompangborn

I turned it back off but I believe it was ...

* * * * * "path to PHP" "Path to api/cron.php"

xrat

I turned it back off but I believe it was ...
* * * * * "path to PHP" "Path to api/cron.php"

Well, if you want someone to help you, you might want to consider to be slightly more specific : Besides, I assume your "path to PHP" pointed to the wrong version of PHP (CGI instead of CLI or something).

Kelli

What happens if you manually run cron.php from the command line? (you can't do it via the browser)