Executing php with crontab

Question

I\'m trying to run a php-script on a scheduled basis. So I\'d thought crontab was a good idea. The server I\'m using is on Linux which I\'m not that familiar with. So the pr

Answer 1

Is this a Linux system?

In newer Linux distributions, there is
actually a convienient crontab-setup system
that doesn't require any entry in the crontab by the user. E.g in SuSE Linux, you have directories

/etc/cron.hourly/
/etc/cron.daily/
/etc/cron.monthly/
/etc/cron.weekly/

Just put an invocation script (konno_php_start) in any of these directories, like

/etc/cron.hourly/konno_php_start

which is executable (chmod 755 or so) and contains:

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/www/some/path/
php  script.php >> logfile.txt 2>&1

and restart the cron daemon. Thats it.

From the logfile, you'll see if your php interpreter
will be found in the PATH. If not, change the line in /etc/cron.hourly/konno_php_start to

/full/path/to/php  script.php >> logfile.txt 2>&1

Regards

rbo