Setting up cron job?

Reamer Fanny

I need to run a php script routinely, maybe once a week with cron I am on an apache setup with blacknight anyone have any idea how to set this up?

azzeretti

Open Source form might be better but do you have shell access? If you do just "crontab -e" to edit your crontab. ("export EDITOR=nano" first will set your editor to nano, change this to vi or whatever)
You can then just add your cron information in the crontab.

I am not sure about Blacknight or the package you are on but some hosted services supply Cpanel (or similar) and you should be able to create crons easier there via a GUI etc.

ocallagh

And just to add to the above - (if you are you logging in via ssh/putty) you also need to place your cron entry in the crontab for the user you want your process to run as - and in most cases the same user that runs apache.

To find the user running apache:
[PHP]ps aux | grep apache [/PHP]

This will prob return apache or www-data or perhaps nobody - To edit cron for the user 'apache' you would do:
[PHP]crontab -u apache -e[/PHP]

To have an entry run every week you would place a new line in the crontab as follows:

[PHP]0 0 * * 0 /path/to/php /path/to/script.php >> /path/to/output.txt[/PHP]

Reamer Fanny

This is what I have in the Blacknight control panel

Sparks

Ask Blacknight support justryan, they're pretty good at the tech support game.
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