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[jannoy]

to all GURU
is there a way that we can determine if cronjob is running or not?

[bubblenut]

Have the file being run by the cronjob affect a file and then look at the last time the file was touched. You could do this by rediecting the output of the file, this would have the added benifit of keeping a log of the files activities (assuming you're echoing debug information)

/usr/bin/php -q ./thefile.php &> thefile.log

The &> re-directs both stdout and stderr to the same file, in this case thefile.log. If you don't want to record stderr you could just use >

HTH
Bubble

PS. In future could you NOT use a DSL!!

[jannoy]

/usr/bin/php -q ./ <--- is this is the right path? or

home/username/public_html

im a little bit confuse since when i access the web using ftp
what i see is this folder

etc
mail
public_ftp
public_html
tmp
www

[bubblenut]

/usr/bin/php is the path the the php executable. You can generally leave off the path as php will generally be in one of the directories in $PATH.