Re: Writing CRON jobs!

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:13, Stuart wrote: > Hamid Hossain wrote: > > Is there any good reference on how to use CRON (I mean on the > > net)? > > > > I need to fire some PHP pages at scheduled time daily or weekly, > > ... so on. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=cron+tutorial+php depending on how you need them to fire off a) if cron is on the same machine as the php script, then write the script as a command-line php script http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php b) if cron is on a different machine, create a normal web php script with some sort of security and use lynx -dump to call it from cron lynx -dump https://user:pass@mymachine.com/iben1Bj7s1N/sEg4gIh6G.php either way add the job to the /etc/crontab file man 5 crontab <minute> <hour> <day of month> <month> <day of week> <user> <command> ie 27 2 * * * bob php4 -q /usr/local/scripts/update.php at 2:27am everyday, run 'php4 -q /usr/local/scripts/update.php' as the user bob