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    copied!<p>I have four PHP scripts that perform various tasks that need to be executed sequentially.</p> <p>Instead of creating a cron entry for each PHP script, I thought I would be clever and wrap it up as a Bash script as below:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash # set notification email. NOTIFYEMAIL="webmaster@example.com" # set PHP path. PHP="$(which php)" # set folder path. FOLDER="/var/www/example.com/processors/" # list of scripts. SCRIPTS=("script_1" "script_2" "script_3" "script_4") # execute each script. for i in "${SCRIPTS[@]}" do SCRIPT="$FOLDER/$i.php" printf "Processing: %s\n" $i chmod +x $SCRIPT $PHP $SCRIPT done echo "Scripts have been processed." | mail -s "Scripts Processed" $NOTIFYEMAIL </code></pre> <p>I've tested all the scripts individually, and they work without error, outputting processing information to the terminal.</p> <pre><code>/usr/bin/php /var/www/example.com/processors/script_1.php </code></pre> <p>I've even tested the bash script which calls the four PHP scripts in sequence, manually via the terminal and that also works without error.</p> <pre><code>/bin/bash /var/www/example.com/processors/run.sh </code></pre> <p>But for some reason, the PHP scripts don't execute when I leave cron to run them using the following on the <strong>root</strong> users crontab.</p> <pre><code># process daily. 0 1 * * * /bin/bash /var/www/example.com/processors/run.sh &gt; /dev/null </code></pre> <p>I know that the crontab has been processed and the Bash script has run because I always receive the notification e-mail at the end of the script, each and every time.</p> <p>Permissions are as follows:</p> <pre><code>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 510 Mar 11 09:21 run.sh -rwxrwxr-x 1 git git 2.8K Mar 8 10:17 script_1.php -rwxrwxr-x 1 git git 2.6K Mar 1 18:07 script_2.php -rwxrwxr-x 1 git git 717 Mar 1 18:07 script_3.php -rwxrwxr-x 1 git git 6.8K Mar 4 16:30 script_4.php </code></pre> <p>There are no cron-specific log files such as <code>/var/log/cron.log</code> but when I run <code>grep CRON /var/log/syslog</code> and it returns the following generic output: </p> <pre><code>Mar 11 06:39:01 s00000000 CRON[11651]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] &amp;&amp; [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] &amp;&amp; find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2&gt;/dev/null \; -delete) Mar 11 07:09:01 s00000000 CRON[12771]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] &amp;&amp; [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] &amp;&amp; find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} 2&gt;/dev/null \; -delete) Mar 11 07:17:01 s00000000 CRON[13074]: (root) CMD ( cd / &amp;&amp; run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) </code></pre> <p>Any suggestions for things for me to try would be appreciated.</p>
 

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