Re: [php-weathermap] Running from cron is helpfull ??

[Howard Jones <howie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Alston wrote:

> So i recently got php weathermap and figured. Heck, be nice to run it 
> from cron?
>
> Would be hey, except the code doesn't seem to take any care of the 
> running directory. So weathermap either spews the image/index files in 
> some random place, or the HTML is broken. I couldn't find anything in 
> the docs to correct this.
*/5 * * * * (cd /your/weathermap/dir; ./weathermap --config blah.conf)

works fine for me. For the IMG SRC, you can use the --image-uri option 
to correct that (*). Easiest is just to run it all in one place. 
Personally I prefer relative paths in the config file, because they 
aren't so long, and don't necessarily all break when I move a config to 
another system.

For what it's worth, if you use Cacti then 0.8 will run from the Cacti 
poller. I'm trying to remove any need to change the weathermap source, 
if anything.

Best Regards,

Howard

(*) which has mysteriously disappeared from the manual, but is 
definitely still there:
      --image-uri whatever-you-want-to-appear-as-the-IMG-SRC