Re: Cron & unlink

Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote:

Does anyone have experience in getting unlink to work within the context of a cron? I created my own garbage collection function and I am trying to delete some session files through a cron that runs every 10 minutes. The session files are owned by 'www' The cron is ran by 'actsmin' The 'unlink' command works within the context of a php script when activated by a user on the web site. Is there another file deletion command within PHP other than unlink? Here is the error message I am e-mailed by the cron when it doesn't successfully delete a session file:

Warning: unlink(/path/to/sessions/files/): Is a directory in /path/to/php/script/cron/calls/script.php on line 47

That has nothing to do with whether this is running from cron or not. unlink is to remove files, rmdir is used to remove directories. Since /path/to/sessions/files/ is a directory, you can't use unlink to remove it. Please read the documentation, it's quite clear for these functions. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/