This is a bit of a mystery to me since you have to "be in" the folder of the Cakefile to run the cake command. I don't really know where cake its path from, but I've tried running this
cd /
PWD=/path/to/cake/file cake server
Still getting this error:
Error: Cakefile not found in /
Would something like
cd /path/to/cake/file && cake server
Work in a cron file? Also could that pose a problem for the remaining cron jobs?
You can use () to make a subshell to run your command without affecting the rest:
(cd /path/to/cake/file && cake server)
That's what I've done in the past for rake tasks, something like
cd /home/user/reports && /usr/local/bin/rake -f /home/user/code/stats/current/Rakefile report:generate_file
in a cron job to set the directory it's running out of. It doesn't cause any problems for any following cron jobs.
It should work without any problems. Launching a subshell should not be necessary.
This works with cronie, but it should also work with dcron.
