Cron job

[Anon]

hi,

can someone pls help me?

this is what i want to do.

once a day, i want a http request to be made for a php page on a f2s server.
this page does all maintainence jobs for my site.

i figured that a cron.daily script would do it, but i do not know how to make a http request without opening a browser or opening lynx. since the cron job will be on someone else's server, i do not want to open lynx, only a request so the page will get executed.

thanx for any reply.

steve

[Anon]

Hi Steve,

I just responsed to this cron job question a few days ago. Here is the link that you might want to check out.

http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=123260&thread=123258

In your situation of requesting an http file, you need to enable the execution permission for webserver before you run it.

chmod 755 maintain.php

To schedule it as cron job:
- create a file name it schedule_task and add the following line in
30 17 * http://www.yoursite.com/maintain.php

It will be run at 5:30 pm everyday.
To schedule a task run the following command
- crontab schedule_task

To view its schedule
- crontab -l

To edit it
- crontab -e

Note: The f2s server that has maintain.php file should already installed PHP as CGI, and maintain.php should have the path to your PHP CGI on the top of file
#!/usr/local/php-cgi/bin/php -q

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