How to run a cronjob every X minutes?

Question

I\'m running a PHP script in a cronjob and I want to send emails every 5 minutes

My current (crontab) cronjob:

10 * * * * /usr/bin/php /mydomain.in/c         


        

Answer 1

Your CRON should look like this:

*/5 * * * *

CronWTF is really usefull when you need to test out your CRON settings.

Might be a good idea to pipe the output into a log file so you can see if your script is throwing any errors too - since you wont see them in your terminal.

Also try using a shebang at the top of your PHP file, so the system knows where to find PHP. Such as:

#!/usr/bin/php

that way you can call the whole thing like this

*/5 * * * * php /path/to/script.php > /path/to/logfile.log