rename（）无法在cron作业中工作

Question

rename() runs fine from the command line, but when run from cron job, the rename() does not. Since the connect.php file works I assume the cron job is in the right directory, but can't figure out why rename() doesn't work. I tried absolute paths and they didn't work:

<?php 
include 'connect.php';

$oldlocation='xxx/xxx/'.$oldfilename;
$newlocation='yyyy/xxx/'.$newfilename;
$move=rename("$oldlocation","$newlocation");

The cron job: * * * * * /usr/bin/php /usr/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx.php -q -f

I have no root access to the server. Should this be run through a SHELL script?

Answer 1

The current path while a cron execution is the home directory of the user which is running the cron process. See also this post.

Just change the relative path to an absolute and the issue is fixed.