Running PHP cron under user fail

[hanliong]

I tried to run php cron job with the following command:

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/usr/local/bin/php /home/xxxxxx/src/file.php

But it returned with error:

-bash: /usr/local/bin/php: Operation not permitted

Trying to run with specified PHP version like:

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/opt/alt/php82/usr/php

also give error.

If I run the cron as root:

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sudo /usr/local/bin/php /home/xxxxxx/src/file.php

It works perfectly.

So, how can a user run PHP cron in CWP? and How to run PHP cron with specified PHP version if we have multiple PHP version installed?

Thanks.

[overseer]

Are you calling this from r00t's crontab / system crontab and want to run as a normal user?

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sudo -u $USER /opt/alt/php82/usr/php /home/$USER/src/file.php
Otherwise, put the php command in the user's crontab.

[hanliong]

The cronjob is under cwp's user. But the process has never run. No emails come to the inbox as it should be.
So, I tried to login to SSH as root and run that cronjob, and it gave the error permission denied.
If I run it with sudo, it works, and the email goes to the inbox.

That is why I want to know, is PHP cron job just allowed to run under root and not user?

Thanks.