Cron - PHP Script

[BeNE.WS]

Hello list,

I am executing a PHP-script via a cronjob.

I use the following command:
lynx -dump http://www.mydomain.com/news_search.php & /dev/null

The cronjob is working and IS updating the news-page on my website. But every time when the cronjob runs I got the following mail:

/bin/sh: /dev/null: Permission denied

You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that
corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use
near 'B: 4.50 (-4.44%


When I run the script in my browser I have NO errors. The script does NOT generate output on the screen.

Any suggestions ??

Thanks

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[X-Istencedotcom]

change:

lynx -dump http://www.mydomain.com/news_search.php & /dev/null

to

lynx -dump http://www.mydomain.com/news_search.php > /dev/null

this sends all output straight to /dev/null and shouldnt email you unless the program (lynx) returns a none zero number (Something wrong if it does), personally i suggest looking at wget, and using that instead.

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[BeNE.WS]

Thanks,

That helped.

Why is wget better ?
Doesn't it leaves a file on the server everytime you do wget ?

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[ciphervendor]

lynx is perfectly fine. You can also use GET if you'd like. No reason to use wget in this case.

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[isputra]

what about if i want to cron the file at /home/users and not at /home/users/public_html ?

i used php /home/users/script.php > /dev/null like suggested by other post on this forum but have result on my email :

"Failed loading /usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendOptimizer.so: /usr/local/Zend/lib/ZendOptimizer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

So what command i must use for that script to work ?

can i use :

lynx -dump /home/users/script.php > /dev/null

or maybe

/usr/bin/wget -O - /home/users/script.php > /dev/null

[isputra]

Nevermind.

It's work now

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