Corn job anomaly

I am hoping someone can enlighten me on this issue I am having. I am trying to set up a cron job to run a php file. I am getting a strange error though. /home/(protected directory)/auto_reminder.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory /home/(protected directory)/auto_reminder.php: line 2: =: command not found /home/(protected directory)/auto_reminder.php: line 3: /*WordPress: No such file or directory This is lines 1, 2 and 3 from my code. <?php $error_log = ""; /*WordPress Optons Table*/ Am I correct in thinking that the error is saying that php doesn't exist? Has anyone ever experienced this? Is this a server related issue? Any clue on how to fix? TIA, Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com <http://designdrumm.com/>