04-25-2007
Using PHP script with crontab (NOOB)
Hi, I am trying to use a PHP script as a test for a cron job.
My crontab is 1 line:
30 * * * * /home/www/inc/crontab.php
if I test the file through the browser (ie.
http://www.domain.com/inc/crontab.php), the PHP script works -- so there is nothing wrong with the PHP script itself or the path.
I aked my hosting admin for assistance and the error he keeps getting is:
/bin/sh: line 1: /home/www/inc/crontab.php: Permission denied
What permission do I need to set to get it to work???
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NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
SYNOPSIS
cron
DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'.
Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron
also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then
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cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab
file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab.
SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5)
AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)