running the cron

[nabeel]

Hey,

Now that we have the blanket authentication working with our sign-on, we've run into another problem - the cron job accessing index.php/cron can't get through.

Is there a way to just run this locally, ie in the shell.
php -f index.php ...

Something to that extent?

Thanks.

[jstanden]

Hey there!

You could just exclude a couple URIs in that bootloader hack we did for you.

Inside index.php (in your custom SSO logic, but before doing the login), do something like:

if(0 == strcasecmp($request->path[0],'cron')
|| 0 == strcasecmp($request->path[0],'update'))
break;

[jstanden]

And yeah, you can run the cron from the console, but it'll have the same issue with the controller/SSO if you don't patch it.

The ideal way to do that is with wget/lynx:
http://www.cerberusweb.com/kb/article/000029

You *could* write a cron.php page that just invokes the ChCronController, but it shouldn't be necessary.

[nabeel]

Hmm, okay, I'm still having some trouble with it. It's because the parameter is not being passed.
I'm running it from the php command line interpreter. Our single sign-on is blanket, covering even localhost.
Looking at the source, this should work:

php -f index.php -cron

Not working out so well though.
I'm tryna to see if I can punch a hole in the auth for index.php/cron, but doesn't seem likely.

Any other suggestions?

[nabeel]

Ok, I ended up writing a custom "cron.php" that will call the Cronjob controller etc. If you would like me to send you the source I can.

It'll run at:

/usr/bin/php -f /path/to/cerberus/cron.php

It gives an error:
PHP Warning: array_shift(): The argument should be an array in /var/www/html/cerberus/libs/devblocks/api/Engine.php on line 229


But it doesn't affect the cron itself running. We didn't really care about the output/errors, just directed it to null.

Thanks!

[jstanden]

Hey there!

You can post the code or send it to me and I'll sort out the warning you're getting. It's likely just from the DevblocksHttpIO object ($request->path).

You probably just need to initialize it to an empty object:

$request = new DevblocksHttpRequest(array());

[nabeel]

Yeah, I think that was it. But since it didn't affect the script itself I didn't bother.

I'll send it once I'm back at work. Thanks alot! I appreciate the help. It's great when companies personally help out :)

[jstanden]

You're definitely welcome! It's always fun to see how flexible the code is. :)