Re: Automatically changing data in database

Julie Meloni wrote: > > > ok, cron jobs are usually setup in /etc/crontab > > > > the line looks something like this: > > > > #minute hour mday month wday who command > > 0 0 * * * root /path/to/cgi-bin/rotate_article.pl > > > > now it's up to you to write 'rotate_article.pl'. > > You can write yourself a PHP script, no matter if you have CGI version > or module version, and access it via lynx. The crontab entry would look > something like this: > > 0 0 * * * root lynx -dump > http://localhost/path/to/rotate_article.php > 1>/dev/null 2>&1 > > or thereabouts. I have plenty of those on my system...awfully useful. > > - julie ahhhhh- turbo genius Julie! -- Marko