Whyyyy, the graphs don't work with crontab?

[cerberof]

hi, i have a problem very extrange. when I run /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php manually, i see the graphs from web.
but when i charge */5 * * * * apache /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php > /dev/null 2>
&1 at the crontab, It ' doesn't work. why?
I have the permissions in this way chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/cacti/ and the same in /var/cacti
drwxrwxr-x 8 apache apache 4096 Sep 5 15:23 cacti

thanks. sorry about my english.

[bocasman]

Hi,

You said that when you've ran manualy the /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/cacti/cmd.php manually it works good, let me ask you something, you are executing that command as "apache"?

Also, you have to make sure that apache can run /usr/bin/php.

[James Austin]

I had the same problem. Drove me nuts.

I fixed it by changing the line in crontab to the following:

*/5 * * * * apache cd <your path to>/cacti; php ./cmd.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Apparently crontab is sensitive about not being in the right directory when running cmd.php.

Hope this helps worked for me.

[wiCKid]

Thanks! Same thing was happening to me. I just could not get Cron to run cmd.php. Great tip.