Php script trigger cron to run?

[eli03]

hello guys,

Is this possible, a php script will trigger the cron to start running? if it is possible how?
🙂 thanks

[LordShryku]

Eh? Like have a php script start the cron process on the server? Sure, I guess it could. Create a shell script to su and start the process, use backticks or a [man]system[/man] call to the shell script.

[eli03]

I don't really have an idea about shell scripting🙁 can you give an example of php script w/c start the crob to process and also shell scirpt? plsss? And also what is backtick?

[LordShryku]

Well, I really don't have time to go through the whole thing and test it, but here's the idea

The shell script

#! /bin/sh
CRON=/usr/sbin/crond
USER=root 

su - $USER -c "$CRON start"
exit 0

PHP Script

<?php
`/path/to/shell_script.sh`
?>

[eli03]

thanks LordShryku, 🙂