crontab help please!

Hi everybody!

I’m trying to use the iii-crontab extension in order to create a simple job in my laptop (mac) but it doesn’t seems to do anything.

I have followed all the instructions from the extensions page

http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/yii-crontab/

And this is what I’ve done:

Inside the /protected/extensions/crontab/crontabs folder I have a created a file named ‘resume_crontab’ with the following line:




*/1 * * * * php /Users/user/Documents/workspace/app/yiicmd.php resume



Inside the /protected/commands folder I created a file named ResumeCommand as follows




class ResumeCommand extends CConsoleCommand

	{

	    public function run($args)

	    {

	        

			yiilog('info','Yeah!'); //This is a function in my globals.php

			echo 'Yeah!';

	    }

	}



In my app folder, where the index.php is, I have created the yiicmd.php file as follows:




// change the following paths if necessary

	$yii=dirname(__FILE__).'/../yii/framework/yii.php';

	$config=dirname(__FILE__).'/protected/config/console.php';

	$globals=dirname(__FILE__).'/protected/globals/globals.php';

	 

	// remove the following line when in production mode

	defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG',true);

	

	require_once($globals);

	require_once($yii);

	Yii::createConsoleApplication($config)->run();



My console.php looks like this :




// This is the configuration for yiic console application.

// Any writable CConsoleApplication properties can be configured here.

return array(

	'basePath'=>dirname(__FILE__).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'..',

	'name'=>'My Console Application',

	

	'import'=>array(

        'application.models.*',

    ),

 

    // application components

    'components'=>array(

        'db' => array(

            'class' => 'CDbConnection',

            'connectionString' => 'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=app',

            'emulatePrepare' => true,

            'username' => 'app',

            'password' => 'app',

            'charset' => 'utf8',

            'enableProfiling' => true,

            'enableParamLogging' => true,

        ),

        

        // usefull for generating links in email etc...

        'urlManager'=>array(

            'urlFormat'=>'path',

            'showScriptName' => FALSE,

            'rules'=>array(),

        ),   

        

		'log' => array(

            'class' => 'CLogRouter',

            'routes' => array(

                array(

                    'class' => 'CFileLogRoute',

                    'levels' => 'info',

                    'maxFileSize' => '10240',

                    'logFile' => 'resume.log',

                ),

            ),

        ),       

    ),

);



For this test I want it to print in the log every minute to see if it works, but nothing happens, and I don’t see any errors.

I have also tried with the crontab -e command from the console, but nothing happens either.

So, how is the job executed? What am I missing?

Thank you very much in advance!

Cheers

By the way…

I there a need to use the extension if I use the crontab commando from linux?

Perhaps the cron daemon isn’t started? (I had to enter cron from the command line when first trying out crontab.)

/Tommy

I already solved it. I didn’t had to use the extension, just the crontab, and it did worked well. Thanks anyway!

Cheers!