Re: Running a PHP script automatically?

Hi, Sunday, September 22, 2002, 2:44:54 PM, you wrote: JS> Folks, I have a PHP script that needs to be executed automatically every 15 minutes. I have JS> the option of doing this on a RedHat linux box, or on Windows 2000 Server. JS> How would I do this (on either platform) and which would be easier? JS> I believe somehow I could create a cron job on linux, but I'm a bit confused how that JS> would work. Would I just call the php script using Lynx? If so, does the Lynx process die when the JS> php script JS> is finished? Will I have dozens of Lynx processes still running at the end of the day? JS> In Windows, I believe I could use the task scheduler, or something like that. But again, how JS> exactly would I call the script? I certainly don't want a new browser window to open every 15 JS> minutes, JS> especially if it doesn't close again. JS> Any insight? Thanks! JS> Joseph JS> -- JS> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) JS> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php I do this in cron 0,15,30,45 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -dump http://domain.com/clkdown.php 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null -- regards, Tom