This looks like a good place for me to step in and maybe clear up
something I've been wondering about ...
With all the advice that has been offered so far, has it been assumed that
php is installed in the CGI rather than DSO manner? Can PHP as a DSO
interpret shell script-like files with a shebang at the top?
Alternatively, I've read somewhere about using lynx to run a .php cron
job. Does this apply to DSO setups? For example, would James put something
like this in his crontab:
* * * * lynx mail.php
TIA
Mick
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Chris Fry wrote:
> Check the path to your php cgi executable - which php - you'll probably find that
> it's #!/usr/local/bin/php
>
> This is what the "no such file or directory" is referring to.
>
> Chris
>
> Don Read wrote:
>
> > On 08-Jul-01 James, Yz wrote:
> > > Hi Ben,
> > >
> > > When running it as a normal PHP file, I get the cron daemon emailing me
> > > stuff like:
> > >
> > > automation/mail.php: ?: No such file or directory
> > > automation/mail.php: =: command not found
> > > automation/mail.php: =: command not found
> > > automation/mail.php: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token
> > > `mail("emailaddress@takenout",'
> > > automation/mail.php: line 7: `mail("emailaddress@takenout", "mail test",
> > > "$mailcontent", "$sender");'
> > >
> > >
> >
> > try a wrapper
> >
> > > When running it with the Perl style line at the top (as you suggested) I
> > > get, "no such file or directory."
> > >
> > > The script is Chmodded to 755 in both cases. And I saved it as a .php and
> > > .cgi file (with the root to bin/php in it). God knows what I'm doing wrong
> > > ;)
> > >
> > > James.
> > >
> > >> 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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