[Labs-l] Having some trouble running a cronjob

[Hay (Husky)]

Hey Tim,
thanks so much for the tip, i guess the cronjob might work now.

Might be interesting to add this to the help page as well?

Thanks,
-- Hay

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
> (anonymous) wrote:
>
>> i'm trying to run a cronjob on Tool Labs, but i'm having some issues.
>
>> My crontab looks like this:
>> 0 * * * *  jsub -N cron-tools.hay-1 -mem 700m php
>> /data/project/hay/lib/crawl-tools.php
>
>> This is the cronjob updating the Tools Directory. It doesn't seem to
>> update things. When i look at the cron logs, i see this error:
>
>> PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected '[' in
>> /data/project/hay/lib/class-directoryapi.php on line 46
>
>> Line 46 states:
>> $tools = [];
>
>> So, the only thing i could think of is that for some reason a
>> deprecated PHP version that isn't supporting the shortened array
>> syntax (available since 5.4) is running cronjobs. But when i run the
>> php command from the shell
>
>> $ php --verson
>
>> I get 5.5 as the version, and running the task directly
>
>> $ php /data/project/hay/lib/crawl-tools.php
>
>> Works perfectly fine.
>
>> I tried looking at the help pages, but i can't find any solution there.
>
> When you do not pass "-l release=precise" or "-l
> release=trusty" to jsub, the grid assumes that the job will
> run on both releases and chooses one by availability.  In
> your case, it has picked Ubuntu Precise ones ("qacct -j
> cron-tools.hay-1"; host names with numbers "-12xy" are Pre-
> cise (Ubuntu 12), "-14xy" mean Trusty (Ubuntu 14)).  Precise
> has PHP at:
>
> | PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.21 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Oct 28 2015 01:43:56)
> | Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
> | Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
> |     with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans
>
> To ensure that your job runs (only) on Trusty and thus:
>
> | PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.14 (cli) (built: Oct 28 2015 01:34:46)
> | Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
> | Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
> |     with Zend OPcache v7.0.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
> |     with Xdebug v2.2.3, Copyright (c) 2002-2013, by Derick Rethans
>
> add a "-l release=trusty", i. e.:
>
>> 0 * * * *  jsub -N cron-tools.hay-1 -l release=trusty -mem 700m php /data/project/hay/lib/crawl-tools.php
>
> Tim
>
>
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