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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
