Re: PHP + Cron jobs

> > > This is something that I've noticed for awhile, but last post to this > > mailing list reminded me that someone probably already knows how to > > work > > around this! I have a cron job that looks something like > > > > 12 6 * * * php /home/foo/temp.php > > > > But even if temp.php doesn't output anything, I still get emails from > > the crontab that consist of > > > > "Content-type: text/html" > > > > I assume this is happening because it's interpreting as a web page or > > some such. > > Somehow your /home/foo/temp.php isn't running with the correct PHP > interpreter. > > > Is there a better way to set the crontab so I don't get that > > output? > > You can always use MAILTO= to direct any output from a cronjob. > I actually am using MAILTO, and that's where the problem is. A cronjob only mails when there actually is output, which I'm fine with. In fact, when I run php temp.php from the command line, I don't get any output. But when it's part of the cronjob, there's that content-type output, which triggers mail to me. You mentioned a correct php interpreter above. Should I instead be running php through some other way or with a specific flag? Waynn