Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows
bob wrote: Hi, I am trying to schedule the running of some PHP scripts on my Win2K PC at home. On my live server I use Linux, so am fully familiar with Crontab. I am not that familiar with running scripts using the scheduler in Win2K though. So far what I have is: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php what happens if you quote everything?: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php But this doesn't seem to do anything..the task manager in the windows scheduler just keeps saying that the task has not been run. Any suggestions? Also, one thing I would like my script to do is to send out an email, but I don't have a mail server set up on my home PC..is there anyway to run a script from a server on a different machine, using Windows scheduler, and if so, what form would the 'path' to the file/server take? Many thanks Alexis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows
On W3K you could use this as the run line in Scheduled Tasks and probably the same in XP although I have not tested this. The same components exist in the W2K version although may be in different locations/names. Run: cmd /c c:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php Start in: C:\path\to\php\file\ Run as: username/pass with security acess to both php.exe and the file.php YMMV pjn - Original Message - From: Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows bob wrote: Hi, I am trying to schedule the running of some PHP scripts on my Win2K PC at home. On my live server I use Linux, so am fully familiar with Crontab. I am not that familiar with running scripts using the scheduler in Win2K though. So far what I have is: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php what happens if you quote everything?: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php But this doesn't seem to do anything..the task manager in the windows scheduler just keeps saying that the task has not been run. Any suggestions? Also, one thing I would like my script to do is to send out an email, but I don't have a mail server set up on my home PC..is there anyway to run a script from a server on a different machine, using Windows scheduler, and if so, what form would the 'path' to the file/server take? Many thanks Alexis -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On W3K you could use this as the run line in Scheduled Tasks and probably the same in XP although I have not tested this. The same components exist in the W2K version although may be in different locations/names. Run: cmd /c c:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php This is *very* close to what I use with Windows XP (actually I use this for file types so that I can right click and run a PHP file on the command line). cmd /K C:\php\php.exe -f %1 The %1 is a variable that gets replaced. If you set this up for the file type then the %1 is the name of the file. So to apply this knowledge to scheduled tasks, you can do: cmd /K C:\php\php.exe -f C:\path\to\your\file.php Start in: C:\path\to\php\file\ Run as: username/pass with security acess to both php.exe and the file.php Agreed... it is much easier to manage it this way although it is *possible* to use the command runas to execute PHP as a different user. For help on these commands, just use: cmd /? runas /? YMMV pjn -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-generalw=2 STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHPsubmitform=Find+search+plugins signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: [PHP] Crontab for Windows
On my live server I use Linux, so am fully familiar with Crontab. I am not that familiar with running scripts using the scheduler in Win2K though. I use nncronlite which is a cron implementation for windoz (familiar crot.tab file); http://www.batchconverter.com/nnCronLITE-download-16062.shtml One problem I encountered with the MS scheduler, is it needed to be running as a process, and in an implementation of windows that had Microsoft SQL Server running on NT, seems this SQL server has the ability to schedule some batch processes, but it implemented a replacement for the batch scheduler that would not process my AT commands. In windoz the AT command is used to add processes to the schedule. hope this helps, Warren Vail -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crontab for Windows
bob wrote: C:\php\php.exe -q c:\path\to\php\file.php But this doesn't seem to do anything..the task manager in the windows scheduler just keeps saying that the task has not been run. Any suggestions? The Task Scheduler uses the 'at' command under the hood, same as cron... Perhaps if you dig down into your 'at' command and see if it's broken... Also, one thing I would like my script to do is to send out an email, but I don't have a mail server set up on my home PC..is there anyway to run a script from a server on a different machine, using Windows scheduler, and if so, what form would the 'path' to the file/server take? If a full-fledged SMTP server is too much hassle, and you're looking to send a relatively light load of email, I've been told that the Pegasus email client is quite happy and easily run from a command line to send out mail under Windows. YMMV -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
