How to: "Cronjob"?

[sid]

over the past years i stumbled upon problems that wouldve required me to run cronjobs. due to my inability to get those things working i always did some fancy schmancy workarounds - waste of code, waste of effectiveness... soooo - its xmas and i have time to learn:

i DO know how to set up an actual cron job - what i DON'T seem to get working is to have it call a script.

could somebody point me to a simple tutorial that explains how such a script must look like (i suppose thats unix command prompt... argh!) or - even better: would someone be able to post the content of a file thats beiong executed by a cronjob which should execute the file - say: home/phpbuild/cron_test.php

thanks - and happy holidays!
sid

[LordShryku]

Here's one:

30 23 * * * /usr/local/lib/php /var/cronscripts/killboss.php

Every night at 11:30, kill the boss 🙂

It's just minute hour day month weekday /path/to/php /path/to/script

[sid]

hmmm... thats it? funny - gotta try that - last time i couldnt get it to execute cronjobs like that. but who knows... havent tried it in forever... thanks man!

[LordShryku]

Yah, that's it. Lemme know if you run into any trouble with it....

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Yah, that's it. Lemme know if you run into any trouble with it....

First time I read the job I thought that said "conscripts".

'Ere, you! You've volunteered to go and kill the boss! Hop to it!

The sample job LordShryku posted assumes PHP exists as a standalone executable. If you've only got it as an Apache module you'll need to get to it through Apache. You do that the same way you get anything out of Apache - by sending it a URL using something like Lynx or wget to make the actual request:

wget -q http://localhost/or/whatever/killboss.php

for example.

[sid]

ahhh... thanks a lot guys - that may very well be what i actually need...

[superwormy]

You could also use lynx if wget is not available...

[LordShryku]

Well...as far as I've experienced...unless you specifically compile -disable-cli in there, the CLI will be installed even --with-axps.

Of course, maybe I just do something weird.