Unable to edit cron using PHP - no error
I am trying to replace the crontab using a new crontab stored at /tmp/crontab.txt.
$output = '';
$output .= "Existing Crontab contents:<br>";
$output .= she开发者_StackOverflow中文版ll_exec('crontab -l');
$output .= "<br>new contents:<br>";
$output .= file_get_contents('/tmp/crontab.txt');
$output .= "<br>Result of import:<br>";
$output .= shell_exec('crontab /tmp/crontab.txt');
$output .= shell_exec('crontab -l');
echo $output;
The output is:
Existing Crontab contents:
1 2 3 4 5 existing
new contents:
* * * * * echo 'test'
Result of import:
1 2 3 4 5 existing
You can see the import does not work and does not show an error.
Apache is running as 'nobody'. I have tried crontab -u nobody /tmp/crontab.txt
as root and it works.
Is this a permissions issue? If so, why is php (running as nobody) unable to update it's own cron? How do I get around this?
Thanks
Try changing your import line to this:
$output .= shell_exec('crontab /tmp/crontab.txt 2>&1');
that'll redirect stderr to stdout and let PHP catch any error message cron's spitting out.
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