How to test cron.php?

maknet

Typically we use the auto-cron, but i would rather get the actual cron job working.

I'm _pretty_ sure i've configured everything right, but it only seems to make tickets whenever i login.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to test if my cron job is working properly?

Or for that matter, am i doing something dumb and it's a simple setting in the admin somewhere?

Any helps is appreciated.

Thanks,

Lawrence

Kelli

What does your cron job look like?

As for determining if it's running, you can check your cron logs, or mail server logs, for that matter.

To test it, you can run it from the command line using the same command you have in your cron job.

maknet

What does your cron job look like?
As for determining if it's running, you can check your cron logs, or mail server logs, for that matter.
To test it, you can run it from the command line using the same command you have in your cron job.

Hi kelli,

I changed the cron from PHP4 to PHP5. Not sure if that will make a difference.

PHP4 outputs some code:

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.9

Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=4a5c2c3e567e6c50b241fa4560abaa36; path=/

Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08 GMT

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Pragma: no-cache

Content-type: text/html

PHP5 doesn't output anything on command line.

Cron's log files thinks it's running.

Is there any way i can check if it's working or not? The only reason why i think it isn't working, is the next morning, whenever i check the tickets, it just displays yesterday's stuff, until i click on OPEN TICKETS or something and then it seems to pull everything.

Thanks,

Lawrence

maknet

Cron seems to work now.

I believe it was because we were incorrectly calling PHP4 in the cron-job instead of PHP5.

Which is weird, because we're using PHP 4.4, but anyways, this seemed to have fixed it.

Lawrence