I'm trying to create a cron job that will send a weekly newsletter. I tried creating a shell task following what [Cakephp manual](http://book.cakephp.org/view/110/Creating-Shells-Tasks) says. Then I go to the Media Temple Cron jobs and type in the following:

`php /home/#####/domains/domain.com/html/cake/console/cake -app /home//#####//domains/domain.com/html/vendors/shells newsletter`

I created the shell task on vendors/shell folder and named it newsletter.php and here's the code for it:

```
class NewsletterShell extends Shell {

    function main() {

    $this->sendEmailTo("Newsletter","subject","email@gmail.com");

    }
}

```

The sendEmailTo is a controller function I have in my appController so all my controller have access to it.

My problem is every time the Cron Job runs I get this message:

Could not open input file: /home/#####/domains/domain.com/html/cake/console/cake

I even gave all the console files (cake.php , cake.bat etc) 0777 read write properties as well as for the vendors/shell/newsletter.php

The ##### are the site number that media temple gives you but I'm not really sure I have it correct. They show an example of a cron job like this: /home/50838/data/script-name.sh

So my questions are:

Is my cake shell task correct and is the way I'm running it as a cron job accurate?

Also does anyone know where to confirm my media temple site number so I can write that off as a possible error.

Thanks in advance,

Fabian
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You can try to `var_dump(ROOT)` or any one of the other [Core Definition Constants](http://book.cakephp.org/view/122/Core-Definition-Constants) to find your directory. Just put it in a controller method somewhere, but make sure to remove it again. Or, if you have SSH access, do `pwd` on the command line.

Other than that, when invoking the `cake` console task, the `-app` parameter is supposed to point to the `app` directory, not the `shells` directory.

---

Try to use [this script](http://book.cakephp.org/view/846/Running-Shells-as-cronjobs) to run your shell as cron job, there may be some missing shell vars.
```
ls -l /home/#####/domains/domain.com/html/cake/console/cake

```

says what? does the cron job run as user #####? if not, the problem is probably permissions on /home/#####/, check them with

```
ls -ld /home/#####/

```