Make sure you also give the path to perl/php. Below is my cron job, it
needs to know the path of the interpreter.
/usr/bin/php /home/user/public_html/test.php
Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Bleything [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 6:34 PM
> To: 'James, Yz'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....
>
>
> How are you executing the script? Does it come by and run 'php
> yourscript.php' or does the script have a shebang ('#!/usr/bin/php') in
> it? I've found that works well... just put that as the first line, and
> it behaves as a shell script (after you make it executable, of course)
>
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James, Yz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is probably going to sound incoherant, but....
>
> Do I have to do anything (other than change the permissions of a php
> file)
> to get it to run as part of a cron job? I created an extremely simple
> file
> that should just send a blank email to me (using mail()). I got an
> email
> from the cron daemon saying, "bad token", or something like that, yet
> when
> executed through a browser, the script behaves as it should.
>
> Do I have to write the php scripts differently to how I would if they
> were
> to be displayed in a browser?
>
> Neeed...Sleeeep.... ;)
>
> Cheers,
> James.
>
>
>
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