Re: To 'f' or not to 'f'

On 10/11/2024 11:43 AM, John Iliffe wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-10-11 at 08:56 -0400, Steve Matzura wrote:
>>   
>> Under some now ancient version of PHP--probably 6, I had a cron job that read:
>>   
>>   php -f {my-php-script}
>>   
>>   and it ran every day like it was supposed to. Now, under 8.3, the job did not execute any more. I
>> removed the '-f' from the line in cron, and the job runs. What is the difference between with and
>> without 'f' if '-f' is supposed to be superfluous?
>>   
> The php man page says:
> -------
> --file file
>         -f file        Parse and execute file
> -------
> so it looks like it should work but why the { } block?  That may be confusing cron.
>
> John
>
the {my-php-script} was just supposed to be a placeholder for the email. 
The actuaql cron command is:


cd /home/tgvpadmin/domains/theglobalvoice.info/public_html && php -f 
mail_gallery_updates.php


With "-f" in the command, it runs, a mail message is created and sent 
out by Postfix--I can see it in the mail log, but the message never gets 
to the intended recipients. I removed the "-f", and it works. 
Coincidence? I don't think so. Since it doesn't generate any log, which 
I would get via email, I can't imagine why it wouldn't work with the 
"-f" in the command. It's academic at this point, as removing the "-f" 
caused it to work, so I'm leaving it that way.