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#12543 Cron Job #12514 #12502

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 03 June 2012 14:10 CDT

Aloys
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes - Chapter about Cron Job
Joomla! version: (2.54)
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.0.91-log
Host: (optional, but it helps us help you)
Akeeba Backup version: Akeeba Backup Professional 3.5.1 (2012-05-25)

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 2Mb, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

Description of my issue:
First My System:

My System:
PHP erstellt für Linux infong 2.4 #1 SMP Tue Jan 17 02:58:41 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
Datenbankversion 5.0.91-log
Datenbankzeichensatz utf8_general_ci
PHP-Version 5.2.17
Webserver Apache
PHP-Interface für den Webserver cgi-fcgi
Joomla!-Version Joomla! 2.5.4 Stable [ Ember ] 2-April-2012 14:00 GMT
Joomla!-Plattform-Version Joomla Platform 11.4.0 Stable [ Brian Kernighan ] 03-Jan-2012 00:00 GMT

I read the days before all guides.

My problem:

In the past I used Joomla 1.7 an Akeeba backup. Every week runs the cron job an I had no problems.

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Content-type: text/html

Akeeba Backup CLI 3.4.3 (2012-03-21)
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Akeeba Backup is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY as per sections 15 & 16 of the
license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html for details.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 1
Description "My automated backup"

Current memory usage: 129.24 Kb

Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /homepages/../d..../htdocs/Joomla_1_7/administrator
JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR : /homepages/../..../htdocs/Joomla_1_7/administrator/components/com_akeeba

Last Tick : 2012-04-13 23:58:04 GMT+0200 (CEST)
Domain : init
Step :
Substep :
Memory used : 2.53 Mb
Warnings : no warnings issued (good)
......................

Last week I changed with Akkeba Admin the Joomla version to 2.54 and I updated to the new version of Akkeba-Backup. I made a backup from the Backend and it's works fine. No problems. But after this my weekly cronjob failed:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Content-type: text/html

Akeeba Backup CLI 3.5.0 (2012-05-14)
Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Akeeba Backup is Free Software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or, at your option, any later version.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY as per sections 15 & 16 of the license. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html for details.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Starting a new backup with the following parameters:
Profile ID 1
Description "My automated backup"

Current memory usage: 129.24 Kb

Unsetting time limit restrictions.

Site paths determined by this script:
JPATH_BASE : /homepages/../d..../htdocs/Joomla_1_7/administrator
JPATH_COMPONENT_ADMINISTRATOR : /homepages/../d...../htdocs/Joomla_1_7/administrator/components/com_akeeba

no more words



Because of that I read the guides:

I changed my Shell Script :
#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/php5 /homepages/../d.../htdocs/Joomla_1_7/cli/akeeba-backup.php

I use profile 1 .

Now the cronjob stopped after starting:

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17
Content-type: text/html

In the backend-log you can read:

[120603 12:27:06] Kettenrad :: Attempting to load from database (backend)
[120603 12:27:06] -- Stored Akeeba Factory (backend) not found - hard reset
[120603 12:27:06]
[120603 12:30:39] Kettenrad :: Attempting to load from database (backend)
[120603 12:30:39] -- Stored Akeeba Factory (backend) not found - hard reset
[120603 12:30:40]

I used different ways in the last days and I read the tickets. But i have no idea. I read the tickets #12514 and #12502 I have the same situation but I didn't used the /f parameter. The cronjob was running in the past. Because of that my Hoster cannot be the reasen. The requirements for the old cronscript and the new cronscript are the same. I compared the old user guide an the new.



Sorry, can someone help me?



Thanks a lot



Aloys



nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
As I've written in other tickets, you are using the PHP CGI binary. However, you have to use the PHP CLI binary. Please ask your host for the proper location of the PHP CLI binary and change your CRON command line.

Educated guess (in other words: I am playing psychic and reading my crystal ball, I might be completely wrong, etc): Most likely your PHP CLI binary is called /usr/local/bin/php5-cli or /usr/local/bin/php-cli, but it's best to confirm that with your host.

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