Bless your heart, Heather. Thanks so much for your help. I'm still nervous, but I'll let you know how it goes.
All the best, Mike Michael M Milligan Web Developer (818) 909-9209 www.mmmilligan.com <http://www.mmmilligan.com> -----Original Message----- From: Heather Laidlaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:41 PM To: 'Michael Milligan' Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] RE: anybody worked with crontab? Mike - It depends on the server, but for example, I have a script that has to call several different programs etc.. <snip> LOGNAME=boxoff SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/u/progs:/u/usr/boxoff HOME=u/usr/boxoff TERM=vt100 export SHELL PATH HOME TERM #This is a shell script that runs the daily reports required #for the Box Office Receipts to be settled before going to #the finance department </snip> This is the stuff that tells it who I am and where to look for various programs. It's going to be different for each server, but your server guy is right that you'll have to define where the programs live so the script knows to use it. You are getting dangerously close to the extent of my help as I've never needed to run PHP stuff from our cron, so I'm pretty specialized in knowing how to pull things from our unix based ticketing system and that's about it. To make the script you basically need to make sure that every key stroke or call that you'd do at a shell prompt is included within your script. Make sure you've chmoded your file so it is executable by the proper people and then you'll need to add it to the crontab. Here are the options for messing with crontab: crontab -e Edits the current crontab or creates a new one. * crontab -l Lists the contents of the crontab file. crontab -r Removes the crontab file. Your server guy is going to be the most help because he knows how your system is set up.. However, I'll stick my oar in where I can if you need help! Heather Laidlaw Internet Manager Seattle Repertory Theatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 443-2210 x1044 www.seattlerep.org -----Original Message----- From: Michael Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 2:26 PM To: Heather Laidlaw Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] RE: anybody worked with crontab? In fact, HEather, I just got an email back from the server guy. HE WROTE: You can use php scripts for crontabs aslo but you have to call the php command line program first like "cd /dir/to/my/program; /usr/bin/php myprogram.php". The crontab service is already running all you have to do is upload the crontab lines you would like and execute the command as it says in the howto in an ssh window. He says I can do it (and I know I can ultimately figure it out) but I'm not sure what he's talking about. Hate to show my ignorance, but when that's all one has... Mike Michael M Milligan Web Developer (818) 909-9209 www.mmmilligan.com -----Original Message----- From: Heather Laidlaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:02 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: FW: [wdvltalk] RE: anybody worked with crontab? Mike - If you can set up a shell script to run a php program you can run it through crontab. If you don't have control of the box you'll need to talk to whomever hosts it about adding things to their crontab. You should be able to run scripts from any users directory, but some hosts might get a little twitchy about doing that. Heather Laidlaw Internet Manager Seattle Repertory Theatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 443-2210 x1044 www.seattlerep.org -----Original Message----- From: Michael Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: anybody worked with crontab? Thanks, Heather. That sounds like the ticket! If I get tired of crontab doing what it's doing, I can just send it to a script that does nothing. I work in PHP. Can it call PHP scripts? Also, is the crontab scripting itself something I can upload myself onto a third party server? Or is it something the server people themselves have to add? I found a couple of good articles on crontab. Thanks again, Mike Michael M Milligan Web Developer (818) 909-9209 www.mmmilligan.com <http://www.mmmilligan.com> -----Original Message----- From: Heather Laidlaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] RE: anybody worked with crontab? I work with it in a limited fashion, but I have access to people who use it at a more advanced stage. Usually, it's best with a crontab to set up a script and then just have the crontab call the script. That way you can make changes on the fly to the script and the crontab just merrily keeps running it... What exactly do you need help with? Heather Laidlaw Internet Manager Seattle Repertory Theatre [EMAIL PROTECTED] (206) 443-2210 x1044 www.seattlerep.org -----Original Message----- From: Michael Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [wdvltalk] anybody worked with crontab? I've got a client who wants to receive dbase in update emails daily, and I don't want to have to do it manually. I heard that crontab will do that...anybody had any experience with crontab? 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