Well, CRON again... Please, please...

Anon

I know, this topic is rather often here, but I cannot manage it...
Well, I have written in crontab line like this:

10 /full_path/crontest.php3

Now, my crontest.php3 is just:
<?PHP
mail("aelaz@usa.net", "subj-cron", "Cron works!");
?>

It does not work. WHAT should I do? And how?

Anon

This should work add one more from in your parameter u r passing to mail()

mail("aelaz@usa.net", "subj-cron", "Cron works!","From: chanderjit@hotmail.com");

I am sure it will work
Check it.
Let me know if it doesn't work

Anon

It did not work. I am really thankful for attention for I'm alone here with this problem, but it does not work!

robertjackson

try adding the path to php3 (if you're running with a cgi version):

10 /path/to/php3 /full_path/crontest.php3

If you're running with a php module, then try calling lynx or wget:

10 /path/to/lynx /full_path/crontest.php3

Also search phpbuilder for crontab or cron or wget or lynx.

Rob

Anon

I found LYNX and tried to execute in UNIX (without using CRONTA😎 this line:
lynx path_to_crontest/crontest.php3

What I get is just the content of this file opened in some unknown for me editor.

With wget I get error message "Invalid host name" for the command:

wget path_to_crontest/crontest.php3

And, the last. What is "path to PHP3"? Which file should I look for?
Great thanks for help.

robertjackson

Run a script with phpinfo.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

This will print out lots of things related to your php setup. In the top block should be SERVER_API. If that says CGI, then you can use /path/to/php3.

Near the Environmental variable section you'll find SCRIPT_NAME. That will give you the /path/to/php3.

Rob

Anon

I have SERVER_API=Apache
In SCRIPT_NAME I have path to my script.
So, I cannot use this "path-to-php" to start script, or?...
Does it mean that I must use lynx or wget?

Anon

Well, I got my PHP script working woth WGET, but - not in CRON, just in UNIX.
So, I have in CRONTAB:
30 wget www.url./crontest.php3

What is the problem???

Anon

I'm really thankful to you, guys, that you've helped me! I would never have done it without you!

Anon

Great so at last you got it. :-)

Please let me know what was the exact problem or what and where all changes u made.

Actually i don't know much about the path what robert jackson explained u. and wget.

Chanderjit

robertjackson

I don't know anything about wget. I've only seen it mentioned in phpbuilder.

I know lynx is a browser that some people use to call a webpage in their crontabs. When I tried that, something went wrong and my page was called continually for about 2 hours before I caught. This 'runaway' situation has been mentioned on phpbuilder in the past.

So I prefer to set up my crontabs as I described:
21,51 /path/to/php /path/to/page.php

When php is installed as a cgi (not as an Apache module), it will be a program that resides somewhere on the server. In my case, the path/to/php is the actual location in the file structure is:
/home/apache/cgi-bin/php4

The /path/to/page.php is the actual location in the file structure. In my case:
/home4/RobsFolder/page.php

To reinforce something, these file locations are the for the system's file structure, not for the page locations that you might put into an HTML page.

Hope that helps.

Rob

Anon

hi,
I am very new in using CRON.. is that possible u can give me some tips or steps.. thanks

robertjackson

Try
http://www.google.com/search?q=crontab+tutorial
which will give a bunch of articles.

Don't forget about the man page (man crontab). Of course, if you don't have shell/telnet access to your server to read the man pages, you won't be able to set-up a crontab.

Rob