[RESOLVED] Cron Job To Restart Apache

lucasrd

Hi, I have written a cron job in PHP that restarts apache. The problem is this...if I run the script from the command line, it restarts apache fine. If cron runs the script (as root) this is the output from the restart command:

/usr/local/apache/sbin/apachectl graceful: configuration broken, ignoring restart
/usr/local/apache/sbin/apachectl graceful: (run 'apachectl configtest' for details)

However, if I restart apache from the command line using that same path/script, it works fine.

What is different about running scripts from cron compared to running them from command line?

Thanks in Advance.

justsomeone

lucasrd wrote:
Hi, I have written a cron job in PHP that restarts apache. The problem is this...if I run the script from the command line, it restarts apache fine. If cron runs the script (as root) this is the output from the restart command:

/usr/local/apache/sbin/apachectl graceful: configuration broken, ignoring restart
/usr/local/apache/sbin/apachectl graceful: (run 'apachectl configtest' for details)

However, if I restart apache from the command line using that same path/script, it works fine.

What is different about running scripts from cron compared to running them from command line?

Thanks in Advance.

I haven't come acrtoss this before. Could you cron the apachectl configtest command and see what it reports?

lucasrd

SYNTAX OK --is the output

justsomeone

lucasrd wrote:
SYNTAX OK --is the output

Most baffling.

Are you absolutely certain that there isn't a type in your cron entry?

[edit]Err... a typO that is...[/edit]

lucasrd

Ok, I've been working on it for the past three days...I finally realized the problemo...

Since I have the Oracle Client Libraries compiled with PHP, I need access to the ORACLE_HOME environment varialbe. Apparently CRON does not carry over the user's environment when it executes the jobs, therefore Apache wouldn't restart because it didn't know how to handle Oracle....

Solution:

#!/bin/bash

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/local/instantclient10_1
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/instantclient10_1:/usr/bin/pear
export TNS_ADMIN=/etc/oracle
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpthread.dylib:/usr/local/instantclient10_1/libclntsh.dylib

/usr/local/apache/sbin/apachectl graceful