crontab question

Pablo

my question is in 2 parts .

for using crontab you have 5 different date bits you can set :
the first is the time of the hour
the second is the hour , in 24 hour format
the third is the day of the week ???
the fourth is the month of the year ????
and the fifth is the year ???


i want a file to be called every day say at 12pm so would that be
0 12 * * *

no i want it to call a php script , located in /home/me/www/mail.php

would i just have the whole bit like

0 12 * * * /home/me/www/mail.php;


the reason i am asking this is that , if i call the file from my shell i won't execute . it only executes if it is called like a web page . so could i slot in wget in there ?

to look like

0 12 * * * wget /home/me/www/mail.php;

or should it be like for the serve web address ,

0 12 * * * wget http://www.myniceserver.com/mail.php;

i'm thinking the last one should work, or should there be single quotes for the url ?

wat ya think ?

Pablo

http://webmasterworkshop.com/guides/crontab_guide.shtml

found the first answer

Pablo

[PHP]10,30,50 10-20 * * * wget -O mail.txt http://www.myniceserver.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi>/dev/null[/PHP]


this cron still seems to be mailing me .

any ideas on what i am doing wrong ??

dahamsta

You'd need to post the code in the script Pablo, and the body of the mail you're getting.

adam

Pablo

[php]10,30,50 10-20 * * * wget -O mail.txt http://www.myniceserver.com/cgi-bin/mail.cgi&>/dev/null[/php]

note the extra & ... that puts both out puts , the one from the wget and the one from running the file , in to /dev/null

thanks anyway adam