RE: [PHP] Urgent help required for using Cron

Dear Javier, We have done the following as per your suggestion 15 17 * * * /path/to/your/php/binary /path/to/your/script.php After editing and saving crontab file the following message pops up at the commond prompt - crontab:installing new crontab crontab:error renaming cron/tmp.1885 to cron/root rename: is a directory crontab: edit left in /tmp/crontab.1885 It did not work. Please suggest what to do next? Regards Siva -----Original Message----- From: Javier Tacon [mailto:javier.tacon@private.com] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:17 PM To: Safal Solutions Subject: RE: [PHP] Urgent help required for using Cron For example, you want execute a script every day at 09:00 am: $ crontab -e And put this line: 0 9 * * * /path/to/your/php/binary /path/to/your/script.php Crontab only can say if the cron was executed correctly or not, but it doesn't say if your script in php has sent the mail correctly or not. For debug if the mail was successfully sent, develope the debug into your script. You can use a some mail classes that they have debug options (for example I use phpmailer v1.65). -----Mensaje original----- De: Safal Solutions [mailto:safalsolutions@sancharnet.in] Enviado el: jueves, 28 de agosto de 2003 13:32 Para: PHP General Asunto: [PHP] Urgent help required for using Cron Hi friends, I have to send mail to people automatically at specified time . Our environment is RedhatLinux 7.3 , Apache ,mysql and php. I am writing a program in php to send the mail if some Condition is met. I want to activate this program at specified time using cron facility. So, How can we do that? Can any one help me?. I have another problem also. We want Cron to indicate ( through a message or a mail) to us that a given task is completed or not. In the present case Cron does a task of sending a mail to a user. After sending the mail we want Cron to indicate to us that the mail was successfully sent or not sent. This we want to know through a program because we want to use this as a part of automation of sending mails. Thanking you, Siva -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php