Corn Problem, please help

[miz]

ok i made a script the delete info from some table,

now i added it to corn in admin cp to run every 1st of month

its apper like that

30	0	1	*	*

now the problem is that its never run

when i click on run now its works like a charm
but its dosent work alone

also in next time it says :
02-28-2005 11:30 PM

but date now is 06/03 and script didnt runned yet

any idea what might be the problem

thanks MiZ

[miz]

bump

please help... not supuse to be that hard

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Try posting the script. The scheduled tasks can be a bit tricky sometimes, had to learn that the hard way myself. Sometimes things run ok with Run Now, but fail when run scheduled.

[miz]

ok
here is the info of the file

scoreboardupdate.php
=================

error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

if (!is_object($DB_site))
{
	exit;
}


// Score board , Award system , Ratio system

	
 // looking for a winner

	  $scorewinner =$DB_site->query("SELECT * FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."user  order by tmsecs Desc limit 1");
	 while ($scorewins = $DB_site->fetch_array($scorewinner)) {
		 
	$totaltmsecs = $scorewins['tmsecs'];
	$winnername = $scorewins['username'];
	$winnerid = $scorewins['userid'];
	$lastmonth = $scorewins['tmsecs'];;

}

	 
	 
	 // clear last month modes

	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."useraward SET award1 = '0'");
	  
	  // set new award winner
	  
	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."useraward SET award1 = '1' where userid='$winnerid'");
	  
	  // upadte user ratio
	
	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."user SET credit =credit+50 where userid='$winnerid' ");
  
	  // update winner last month secs
$DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."user SET lmsecs ='$lastmonth' where userid='$winnerid'");
	  // clear all tmsecs of users	 
	  $DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."user SET tmsecs = 0");
	  $DB_site->query("TRUNCATE TABLE ".TABLE_PREFIX."`scoreboard`");




log_cron_action('Scoreboard Updated', $nextitem);

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I don't see a good reason why it should not run in cron. Did you check if you maybe got a SQL-error mail?
A few remarks though:
- The table useraward, does it contain all users? If not the new winner might fail if it is the first time someone wins.
- No need to use quotes around numeric values in queries, only cast the value to an INT if it is a dirty value (user inputed).
- Not sure if that truncate statement will work correct when a table prefix is used, because of the back-tics.
- Does the run get logged in the cron-log?

[miz]

when i run the script with run now button its work perfect

and when i click on run now its get logged

but else its just not working.
script working great as script
but on corn its not get executed

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Well if it gets logged, then it is executed without a SQL-error.

Will try to look at it tomorrow (hmm why this sentence sounds familiar, hmmm think i forgot to do some things i promosed to do today )

What about the table being populated with all userids before the script is run?

[miz]

what about it >

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Does the useraward table already have an entry for every existing userid in it?

PHP Code:

      // set new award winner
      
      $DB_site->query("UPDATE ".TABLE_PREFIX."useraward SET award1 = '1' where userid='$winnerid'"); 


You only do an update for the new winner, but what if this user never win before? Will there already be an (empty?) entry in the table?

[miz]

well then it shows as

USERID : 54
AWARD1 : 0

same for all users