OK, after hammering away at the host tech support and finally, after threatening to pull someone’s teeth and hear out got to a SENIOR tech person.
Seems you were on the right track and the directory structure was “revamped” and of course no one was told. The PROPER directory is now:
“/usr/php/56/usr/bin/php” so that seems to have resolved the issue. It took their LEVEL5 technician to finally advise me of the directory restructuring!!!
I will continue to monitor this closely. It would be nice if the stinking host would advise that a directory structure was changed… and even more so tell their entry level tech support personal of this change instead of having a week plus of discussions with them only to be told it was MY fault and they will not support CRON jobs etc.
I will update, as required should this issue continue to be unresolved. I will allow a few days and if errors go away I will then close this thread.