A fix from boman in bug 1421 that allows the script to be

run from anywhere on the command line in PHP > 4.3.0.

ie:

   php /some/dir/moodle/admin/php.php

   ... now works again

diff --git a/admin/cron.php b/admin/cron.php
index 5a16fd5598af51238ae6ce8767df773e2c90cb98..5f307ba63df5161f0b2e891e43f4577ffa05b6b0 100644 (file)
--- a/admin/cron.php
+++ b/admin/cron.php
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@
     $FULLME = "cron";
 
     $starttime = microtime();
+    
+/// The current directory in PHP version 4.3.0 and above isn't necessarily the
+/// directory of the script when run from the command line. The require_once()
+/// would fail, so we'll have to chdir()
+
+    if (!isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && isset($_SERVER['argv'][0])) {
+        chdir(dirname($_SERVER['argv'][0]));
+    }
 
     require_once("../config.php");