Author Topic: CiviMail cron error (Read 1112 times)

Yoda_Oz · May 23, 2011, 08:55:51 am

Usage: Please define CIVICRM_CONFDIR in settings_location.php at the top level civicrm directory
this is my cron:

MAILTO="my@email.address" (changed to protect the innocent!)
CIVI_ROOT=/home/rdcdiving/ringwooddivingclub.com.au/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm
USER=user (changed! i assume this is my server's username?)
PHP=/usr/local/bin/php

PARAMS= -sdefault -u<username> -p<password> (obviously, these are my joomla username and passwords yeah?)

*/2 * * * * cd $CIVI_ROOT;$PHP bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS
*/15 * * * * cd $CIVI_ROOT;$PHP bin/EmailProcessor.php $PARAMS

i thought settings_location.php was a drupal file...

anyway, ive got my civicrm 3.4.1 installed on joomla 1.5.22.

Yoda_Oz · May 23, 2011, 09:20:04 am

ive also tried the wget method...

when i do this:

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export WGETRC=civicrm-wgetrc
wget -O - -q -t 1 \
http://www.example.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

everything works fine and scheduled emails get sent off.

however, when i put it in a cron:

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MAILTO="my@email.address" (changed to protect the innocent!)
*/5 * * * * yourLinuxUserName wget -O - -q -t 1  export WGETRC=civicrm-wgetrc http://www.example.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

why isn't wget working in crontab?
doesn't do anything. i don't even get an error sent to my email address!

xavier · May 23, 2011, 10:01:11 am

Hi,

the CIVICRM_CONFDIR in settings_location.php means it didn't find the civicrm config. Not sure why, I don't use joomla. would be good if you could investigate.

As for why the cron doesn't work, sounds weird. you put it in a file under /etc/cron.d ?

Yoda_Oz · May 23, 2011, 10:04:52 am

new update...

i found that if i put the export and wget commands into a shell script file and then call that file through crontab that works:

cron.sh

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export WGETRC=ringwooddivingclub.com.au/civicrm-wgetrc
wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.ringwooddivingclub.com.au/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

crontab -e

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*/5 * * * * sh  /home/rdcdiving/cron.sh

hope this helps anyone thats having the same problems...

zmi · July 20, 2011, 07:09:12 am

I'd like to jump into this. I also setup CiviCRM within Joomla, and got the "CIVICRM_CONFDIR" error message from the first posting. And I'd like to use the normal cron way without wget. There just isn't any "settings_location.php" in the whole CiviCRM+Joomla path, so where should that variable go in?

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