cron job help

Placebo

hey guys,
for digiweb or similar, with cron job interface, how do i specify a job

/hsphere/local/home/***/curl -source http://www.site.ie/cron/mailqu.php

???

zAbbo

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FTP User > Crontab

Placebo

sorry i mean to say whats the command i use in there


/hsphere/local/home/user/domain.ie/cron/mailqu.php


should work but it doesnt....

zAbbo

What kind of error do you get?

I don't have any current crons setup, but I did have to play with the command to get it to work.

Placebo

no errors at all, initially was getting dir not found when i was using command quoted in my first post

Placebo

actually got errors, couldnt understand php, so i specified php path , now it reports back that the DIRECTORY exists,

im using it to send mails.

do i need to specifiy sendmail path? not sure where that is even

Placebo

its aways the simplest things that take the longest ! wasted over 3-4 hours on this, got it working,

posting it on my blog for reference
http://ilovenicii.com/?p=78

Jonathan

Sorry, had I seen this thread earlier, I could have helped you out.

They do actually have PHP CLI installed, but the php.ini file is not editable and so you are just better off going through apache and lynx.

S.M.B.

Is there any decent beginners guide to cron jobs out there?

I'm looking to back-up my databases and delete redundant data on a regular basis but I'm not too sure how to go about it?

Jonathan

Cron is a simple enough tool. What you need to do is figure out how to delete the redundant data from the commandline first.