command line cron jobs

[dodo]

could someone please tell me or point me to a website that teachs command line cron jobs to run PHP scripts?
i need to know how do i run one every midnight and how to run one every 1st of a month at midnight. thank you so much!

btw i use unix.

[jblack]

I've never used Unix before (Just linux), so I'm not exactly sure on the cron job. However, I know with Debian (Linux) they have a /etc/crontab file. If you edit that file you will notice a line that looks like: "# m h dom mon dow user command"

That means Minute, Hour, Day of Month, Month, Day of Week, User to run as , Command

So if you put "0 0 1 <user> <command>" at the end of the file it should run at midnight on the first day of the month. I'm not sure if it is the same with Unix.

For the running PHP from the command line. Php.net has a page on it here

[beischer]

Hi,

Download and install webmin, www.webmin.com, this gives you a easy way of running cron commands and administrate your server...

"php -f /home/www/index.php" will run a php script from the command line or with cron.

[dodo]

thank you. my webhost actually provides a tool for cronjobs.. i first thought it's not working but it's working now.