CRON fopen Problem

[luiddog]

I have a page that adds items to a DB table and creates a new txt file with those items. It works fine when I run it manually but when it runs as a CRON in Plesk I get

PHP Warning: fopen(file.txt): failed to open stream: Permission denied
PHP Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource

the cron is running under the domain in Plesk, not the Server and the syntax is:

/usr/bin/php -f /var/www/vhosts/*.com/subdomains/dev/httpdocs/crons/file.php

When the cron runs and gets the errors it still adds the items to the DB table but, obviously, doesn't creates the txt file. Any ideas?

[luiddog]

I added the cron to a site using cpanel and it worked fine. Could it be a plesk user problem? I tried running the cron under root and apache in plesk and still get the same error.

[Horizon88]

It's probably a Plesk thing. I couldn't stand working with that software. All I had was user permissions and authorization problems, constantly. It got to be such a pain that I wound up just using Plesk for initial domain configuration, then I'd do everything else manually in SSH. You could try setting the cron up in SSH as the user you want it to run as and see if that would work better.