Archive.sh failure

Support & Bugs
1

hello,

i tried to get the auto archive function running but dont really know what i am doing wrong.
i tried to run the script on the console to see if it is working but it gives me the following failur message:

piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: which: not found
piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: which: not found
piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: which: not found
piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: which: not found
piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: test: argument expected

i am not familiar with shell scripting and dont know what the failure message means.
anyone who can “translate” it please? what could i do to get it to work as it should?

2

Sorry, but your system doesn’t have some very basic shell commands like “which” and “test”. Can you contact your hosting provider? Maybe you have to add something to your PATH.

3

Thanks for the Reply. Well I contacted my hosting provider and I have to say they were no help at all.

Well i figured out the Path to PHP is /bin/php or /bin/php5

Now i got it so far that if i Enter

sh /piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh

it says

/piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: /piwik/misc/cron/archive.sh: cannot open

well, no longer the mentioned failure but another one. :wink:

cannot open doesnt mean that it isnt executable isnt it?

4

I’m not sure but maybe is a permission problem, check if it has the correct ones. like 755.
If it has the correct ones, will be other problem.

5

well i gave it 777 alreade but nothing changes :frowning:

can i modify the start of the script by setting the path to php as a variable?

6

Sure, feel free to edit as needed. You should also copy the script to another directory (or rename it), so that it doesn’t get overwritten by a Piwik update.

7

Hmmm. I meant if there is any possibility to start the script with some variables like

archive.sh -path to php etc.???

i am not used to sh scripts or programming. :frowning: