Thread:Project:Support desk/maintenance / DeleteOldRevisions not working

I've tried a to get various plugins to call maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php for me to no avail.

I'm missing SSH access to the server, so I can't see if it's crashing, however I have tried two scripts now that basically call php's exec function on the file and output the results. Each time I run it, it returns nothing.

First I tried an extension called DeleteHistory to do it, and the result was that the page didn't crash, but didn't do anything (it outputs a call to shell_exec(.../maintenance/deleteOldRevisions.php)).

Then I tried using the MaintenanceShell extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MaintenanceShell ) and the same thing happened. Nada. No output from the function call.

My question is, has anyone tested that maintenance script in the latest mediawiki (1.21.2)? Is there some other hook/extension/setting I might have that's breaking it or is it possible that maintenance script isn't working?