Need Help of CRON Job

[amarvora]

Hello Friends.,

I have make my website in PHP. I want to put some programming with the help of cron job.
But I am unknown for LINUX and cron command. I have seen my cPanel there is a option of Cron job. and in that there is a one text field of "Command :- [_______] " But i dont know what command I have to type in this textfield. So please if anyone knows that cron command then please tell me what should i have to type??

Thank you very much..

[junglecat]

There are a lot of commands that work, here are some examples that work for php scripts:

lynx --dump http://DOMAIN/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE > /dev/null
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php /home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE

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php -f /home/USERNAME/public_html/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE
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/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null http://DOMAIN/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE
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wget -q --delete-after http://www.DOMAIN/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE
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GET http://DOMAIN/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE> /dev/null

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/usr/bin/curl --silent http://www.DOMAIN/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE > /dev/null
(curl has to be installed for this one to work)

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can also use instead of url:
http://<IP>/~USERNAME/

EX:
lynx --dump http://12.34.567.890/~USERNAME/PATH_TO_CRON_FILE > /dev/null


And here are some helpful links where you can learn more about crons:

http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=32191
http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/28/0.php
http://www.interspire.com/whitepaper...n_to_Cron.html

[amarvora]

Hello Friend

First of thank you very much for such a nice response...

Now i want to tell you that.. I have entered this command
/bin/php -q /home/mymodule/public_html/cron.php

but when I received mail in that it says /bin/sh: /bin/php: No such file or directory

Now what I have to do for this problem ???

[jester.ro]

put php, not /bin/php

the error you got means that the php bynary is not in /bin

usually is in /usr/local/bin/php

but simply putting php as the command usually works