Author Topic: Problem running cron jobs (Read 4287 times)

stirrell · January 28, 2009, 07:10:50 am

Hello there,

I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I am having trouble with the maintenance cron jobs. An example of how I've set them up to run is:

wget http://www.domainname.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=UserName&pass=PassWord&key=key

I get a logged error from the server stating:

Quote

ERROR: You need to send a valid key to execute this file. More info at: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration.

So it looks like the key is not getting passed... if I run the command through a browser, it runs fine. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks,
Scott

emilyf · January 28, 2009, 07:29:27 am

if you just run that wget directly in shell (not via cron) do you still get the error?

joemaine · January 30, 2009, 03:21:43 pm

Hi Scott,

I'll bet that the problem is with an unsafe character in the user name and/or password - not only is there an issue with the normal suspects
& = + $ ? % , / : { } #
but I've seen an issue with ! as well. Set up an admin user just for scheduled crons with a secure user name and password and the problem may disappear.

benced · February 04, 2009, 07:37:17 am

same problem here my username, password and key all contain alpha characters only

I am still running Drupal 5 and an earlier version on CiviCRM

I am hoping the problem will disappear on upgrade to Drupal 6

alfred_nutile · February 12, 2009, 05:53:55 am

The wget url should have \ to help with odd characters.
For example
....php?name=civimail\&pass=civimail08

I do not see that in your post?

mrengy · February 17, 2009, 09:34:13 pm

I'm having a problem with the key for this as well.

I carefully followed the instructions at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration

And I edited the site key line in my civicrm.settings.php file to read:

define( 'CIVICRM_SITE_KEY', 'r0zsfYtC0PcEF\x^' );

and went to the URL: http://recycleabike.org/crm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?key=r0zsfYtC0PcEF\x^

It still gave me the error: ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file.

Also, once before when I was trying a different site key, it gave a different error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/mikeeng/recycleabike.org/crm/standalone/civicrm.settings.php on line 148

At which point I checked around line 148, but didn't find anything immediately obvioiusly wrong there.

Thoughts?

Kiran Jagtap · February 17, 2009, 10:59:50 pm

hi

I think you are not giving user name and password in url.
You might want to try url like : http://recycleabike.org/crm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=username&pass=password&key=r0zsfYtC0PcEF\x^

kiran

mrengy · February 18, 2009, 09:41:42 am

Hmm. I don't have a username and password - I log in with an OpenID. How do I set up a username and password for this?

Kiran Jagtap · February 19, 2009, 04:22:13 am

hi

In case of standalone installation
username = your OpenID
password = your OpenID account password.

kiran

Donald Lobo · February 19, 2009, 06:16:22 am

kiran's reply is not correct. i think wes morgan has fixed this in 2.2. i'll ask him to respond here

lobo

yasa · March 13, 2009, 12:02:46 am

Quote from: stirrell on January 28, 2009, 07:10:50 am

Hello there,

I was wondering if anyone else had run into this problem. I am having trouble with the maintenance cron jobs. An example of how I've set them up to run is:

wget http://www.domainname.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=UserName&pass=PassWord&key=key

I get a logged error from the server stating:
ERROR: You need to send a valid key to execute this file. More info at: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration.

So it looks like the key is not getting passed... if I run the command through a browser, it runs fine. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

Thanks,
Scott

I have the same exact problem as Scott. What is the solution? did I missed something?I am using 2.2b4 and joomla 1.5.9

Thanks in advance,
Yasa

ken · March 13, 2009, 12:57:28 am

Hi,

This is probably a dumb question, but I haven't see the answer in the dialogue so far, so ...

... Have you set the key in civicrm.settings.php?
... Did you put it in single-quotes like 'this' so it is parsed as a PHP string?

Ken

Sunil · March 13, 2009, 01:03:52 am

Hi,

to run the cron job,
1. Define the Site key in civicrm.settings.php file
e.g. define( 'CIVICRM_SITE_KEY', '7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442' );

2. for Drupal
i. Run through a Browser
http://www.domainname.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username&pass=password&key=7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442
ii. Run through command prompt
wget http://www.domainname.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username\&pass=password\&key=7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442

3. For Joomla
i. Run through a Browser
http://www.domainname.com/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username&pass=password&key=7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442
ii. Run through command prompt
wget http://www.domainname.com/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username\&pass=password\&key=7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442

Sunil

yasa · March 13, 2009, 11:31:38 am

Thank you Sunil,

Quote from: Sunil on March 13, 2009, 01:03:52 am

ii. Run through command prompt
wget http://www.domainname.com/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username\&pass=password\&key=7c748907d69ccf9437fb9b477d13e442

You made it really clear for me - thank you a bunch

. When I run crons job in my sever i need to add "\" in front of &. Because the server run on *nix. I use cURL working like a charm.

Best,
Yasa

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