Re: Running PHP as a cron job....

On 08-Jul-01 James, Yz wrote: > Hi Ben, > > When running it as a normal PHP file, I get the cron daemon emailing me > stuff like: > > automation/mail.php: ?: No such file or directory > automation/mail.php: =: command not found > automation/mail.php: =: command not found > automation/mail.php: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token > `mail("emailaddress@takenout",' > automation/mail.php: line 7: `mail("emailaddress@takenout", "mail test", > "$mailcontent", "$sender");' > > try a wrapper > When running it with the Perl style line at the top (as you suggested) I > get, "no such file or directory." > > The script is Chmodded to 755 in both cases. And I saved it as a .php and > .cgi file (with the root to bin/php in it). God knows what I'm doing wrong > ;) > > James. > >> How are you executing the script? Does it come by and run 'php >> yourscript.php' or does the script have a shebang ('#!/usr/bin/php') in >> it? I've found that works well... just put that as the first line, and >> it behaves as a shell script (after you make it executable, of course) >> >> Ben >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: James, Yz [mailto:liljim@btconnect.com] >> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:39 PM >> To: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job.... >> >> Hi all, >> >> This is probably going to sound incoherant, but.... >> >> Do I have to do anything (other than change the permissions of a php >> file) >> to get it to run as part of a cron job? I created an extremely simple >> file >> that should just send a blank email to me (using mail()). I got an >> email >> from the cron daemon saying, "bad token", or something like that, yet >> when >> executed through a browser, the script behaves as it should. >> >> Do I have to write the php scripts differently to how I would if they >> were >> to be displayed in a browser? >> >> Neeed...Sleeeep.... ;) >> >> Cheers, >> James. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.