Re: php script run by cron job
| From: | Nick Wilson | Date: | Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:23:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php script run by cron job | ||
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* and then Merlin declared....
> Hi there,
>
> I already managed it to run a php script by cron, but now I cant remember
> the exact syntax. Somehow it does not work. /var/log/messages tells me that
> cron has called the line, but it never runs. I did try to run the line
> without cron and it works.
>
> Here is the how I did it:
> 14 8 * * * root /usr/local/bin/php /home/www/cron/statistics.php
No, but then im no cron expert either ;-)
Whenever i need to do a cron job i refer to this:
http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/mdrone/cron&crontab-howto.htm
If the crontab line is executing but the script aint running try this:
14 8 * * * root php -q /home/www/cron/statistics.php
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Nick W