I have a PHP script that I want to run every 10 minutes, going through database records and creating/editing movies through MEncoder. I've set up cron job to accomplish this, but it doesn't work very well.
I have my PHP script, call it document.php. I also have a bash script (document.sh) to call this PHP script;
#!/bin/bash
php document.php
Now comes the weird part: When I manually run the bash script everything works great - the movies are created or edited just the way I want them - but when I let the cron job run the bash script every 10th minute the movies are corrupt. They have some frames in them, though. I have no clue how this can happen. I've checked the permissions and file paths and everything looks fine. Does the cron job kill my process? Does it have a time limit (it takes roughly 1-2 minutes to run MEncoder through the files)?
Hope someone can provide an answer - this really bugs me and deadline is near.
I'm running Ubuntu Server with the latest updates and the latest MEncoder from the repo.
Best regards, Björn