[snip] I have to send mail to people automatically at specified time . Our environment is RedhatLinux 7.3 , Apache ,mysql and php. I am writing a program in php to send the mail if some Condition is met. I want to activate this program at specified time using cron facility. So, How can we do that? Can any one help me?.
I have another problem also. We want Cron to indicate ( through a message or a mail) to us that a given task is completed or not. In the present case Cron does a task of sending a mail to a user. After sending the mail we want Cron to indicate to us that the mail was successfully sent or not sent. This we want to know through a program because we want to use this as a part of automation of sending mails. [/snip] Did you have a look at the tutorial I sent you? http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html What, specifically, do you not understand? 1. From the command line type "crontab -e". This brings up the cron list in vi 2. type "i" for the insert command 3. on the last line type the time you would like the cron to run, along with commands 15 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /path/to/my/mail_script.php will run the PHP script each morning at 3:15 AM 4. Hit 'escape' and type :w! to save 5. type :q! to quit The cron job will now run each morning at 3:15 AM HTH! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
