crons

**DewKnight** · March 22nd, 2006, 5:46 PM

A question.. I have something that I need to run nightly... I was going to set up a cron for this.. for some reason it is not working... Can crons run php files? If so, is there any specific things I need to do for that file? Also, any references to files in the php file, do I need to put the full path, or just the relative path..?

Thanks!

**DewKnight** · March 22nd, 2006, 5:47 PM

here's the error I am getting from the cron..:

Code:

/home/wpc/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/home/wpc/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php: line 2: =@: command not found
/home/wpc/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php: line 2: //check: No such file or directory
/home/wpc/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `'/home/wpc/public_html/resources/test.csv''
/home/wpc/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php: line 3: `     $lines=file('/home/username/public_html/resources/test.csv'); //the file we are going to open'

I replaced the username...

I can post the code of the file too, if needed..

**mr_fern** · March 22nd, 2006, 6:21 PM

what's the cron line look like?

I have 3 php crons running on my site now

**DewKnight** · March 22nd, 2006, 7:45 PM

I got it to work, I needed to use this line: php -q /home/username/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php

**mr_fern** · March 22nd, 2006, 7:49 PM

March 22nd, 2006, 5:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,826 posts Gave thanks: 103 Thanked 199 times	crons A question.. I have something that I need to run nightly... I was going to set up a cron for this.. for some reason it is not working... Can crons run php files? If so, is there any specific things I need to do for that file? Also, any references to files in the php file, do I need to put the full path, or just the relative path..? Thanks! __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

March 22nd, 2006, 6:21 PM	#3 (permalink)
mr_fern All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us Excelling Contributor Joined in Feb 2005 Lives in Vegas & New York 824 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 6 times	what's the cron line look like? I have 3 php crons running on my site now __________________ Nobody doing nothing

March 22nd, 2006, 7:45 PM	#4 (permalink)
DewKnight Skittles Super #1 Joined in Aug 2004 Lives in a space ship Hosted on dedi 6,826 posts Gave thanks: 103 Thanked 199 times	I got it to work, I needed to use this line: php -q /home/username/public_html/resources/val_send_vis.php __________________ Mountain Dew Knight People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

March 22nd, 2006, 7:49 PM	#5 (permalink)
mr_fern All Ur Base R Belong 2 Us Excelling Contributor Joined in Feb 2005 Lives in Vegas & New York 824 posts Gave thanks: 2 Thanked 6 times	cool __________________ Nobody doing nothing

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