Posted by Richard Heyes on 10/20/85 11:31

Dan Seibert wrote:
> Richard Heyes wrote:
>
>> Dan Seibert wrote:
>>
>>> I have a script that connects to a sybase server. It works fine if I
>>> launch it from a shell script however, if I try to launch the same
>>> script through a cron, I get the message "PHP Fatal Error: call to
>>> undefined function sybase_connect..."
>>>
>>> Why can I not connect to sybase through a cron but I can through shell?
>>
>>
>> You may have two instances of the php cli/cgi binary, compiled
>> differently. Try using `locate` or `find` on the cmd line to find them.
>>
> Good call on that... I do have 2 php's compiled. Now, how do I tell the
> cron to look at the other PHP to run that job?
>

Supply the full path to the correct binary, be it in your scripts' hash
bang (ie. the top line: #!/usr/local/bin/php) or in your crontab,
(eg. 0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php foo.php)

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Richard Heyes
http://www.phpguru.org

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