Sorry. The problem is that I cannot get the "crontab" command executed.
I did try with the backsticks, but it didn't work either.
I have different users, login in to the website using phpSecurePages,
how can I let them change their "crontab"? Is my approach too wrong??
Any ideas??
Thanx..
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:06, Chris Hayes wrote:
> At 22:52 14-11-2003, you wrote:
> >Hi!!.
> >I'm trying to give users the chance to modify its cron from a webform.
> >The webform let's the users choose the day, month and minutes after
> >hour, then, using PHP I made one long string and save it into a file
> >($tmpnam), it looks like this:
> >
> > $content = "$min $hour $day * * /tmp/parse_maillog.sh"; //I
> > obtain $min
> >$hour & $day earlier in my webform
> > $tmpfname = tempnam ("/tmp/mail", "$username_crontab.txt");
> > $handle = fopen($tmpfname, "w");
> > fwrite($handle, $content);
> > fclose($handle);
> >
> > system("crontab -u $username $username_crontab.txt");
> > unlink($tmpfname);
> >Debugging this part I found that the file is OK, the problem is with the
> >"system" function, obviously a "user" problem, how can I fix it?? any
> >ideas?? I use phpSecurePages as an authentication system.
>
> You forgot to tell what the problem is.
>
> Does the crontab command work when you try to parse it directly?
>
> Wasn't there something in the manual about using `bacticks` instead of
> "quotes" with the system command?
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