Re: cron job

when I type lynx localhost/daily_jobs.php from the prompt or by excuting "daily_php" the cron file everything works fine I found out that I get a daily email from crontab saying: Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor. Does this mean anything ?? "Krznaric Michael" <mkrznaric@rand.com> wrote in message news:31CDAF2F1287D2118BE40008C7568D650E537827@srvtoronto.rand.com... > What happens when you say > > lynx localhost/daily_jobs.php > ?? > > Also, you should look at the email of the cron job owner. You should have > an email there containing output from your cron entry. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ahmed [mailto:ahmed@mazika.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:47 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] cron job > > > Hi all, > I have a problem with excuting a daily PHP script, I put this script in > the cron.daily folder so that its excuted daily, but I noticed that its > never excuted, I made sure of the permissions on the cron file, and here is > the content of the cron file > << > #!/bin/sh > > lynx -dump localhost/daily_jobs.php > /dev/null > >> > > I tried to remove the > /dev/null , but nothing changed and when I excute > the file manually by issuing ./daily_jobs.php it works just fine !! > > so what the problem could be ? > > Thanks > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >