Hi there !

I need to call a php file from cron every hour !
I don t know how to get rid with that does anybody can help ?

Thanks

/var/cron/tabs/username:
0 0-23 * * * /path/to/executable/phpscript

Techinically you should edit this with `crontab -e` I have had a horrible time doing this though. Your best bet is to edit it with that command and make a note of the temp file it creates. If, for some reason the file isn't copied the the right directory manually move it (you will need to be root). If /var/cron/allow exists you MUST be listed in there. If /var/cron/deny exists you MUST NOT be listed in there. Hope this helps.

Thanks, i finally find some more informations about cron but it stills don t work ..here 's what my cron looks like !

i aslo tried that
does anybody have an idea please help !!!

You want it to run at midnight every day? I thought you wanted it to run once every hour?

Once every hour would be
0 0-23 * * * wget -q -O http://myadress/myscript.php
etc...

Note: Don't start it like a shell script it isn't one. It just has to be in /var/cron/tabs/ as your username... cron will find and run it.

yes i want to start it everyhour ...but why -23 in your exemple ?
sorry but what has to be in /var/cron/tabs/
may be it s astudip question but i am a

This is the way i edit my crontab :
edit etc/crontab.save
then i save this way
crontab etc/crontab.save;

THANKS Frob 23

Okay, first the fields.

minute hour etc.

We want it to run on the 0th minute (start of the hour) and we want it to run on all the hours... from midnight through 11pm... 0-23 (military time... that is a selection of the hours we want.) We could run it every other hour with 0-23/2 the man page goes into detail about this. We leave the rest as *s because we don't want those values to affect when it runs.

User cron tabs are kept seperate from the system cron table. This allows you to change them without screwing up the important logs. They are kept in a file: /var/cron/tabs/frob23 (for example) That file would contain the lines in the format described in crontab's manpage. Aka... the same one I have been giving.

/var/cron/tabs/frob23: (the filename this is not in the file itself)
0 0-23 * * * /path/to/my/program with the arguments after it.

I hope this helps.

here is the way i edit cron

edit etc/crontab.save
then i save this way
crontab etc/crontab.save;

i had your line 0 0-23....

But it don t work
There s something i don t understand , i don t have those folder
var/cron/tabs/airbuzz
but i have usr/home/airbuzz which leads me to my home directory; i run a virtual server apache

THANKS 4 your time Frob 23

Do you have /var/cron/ ? /var/cron/tabs/ ? If you have /var/cron you can mkdir tabs. You will not have airbuzz (a text file) there until you make it.

Yeah, editing /etc/crontab that way will not work. Different format...

fine ...i finally find the answer

0 0- 23 * * * /usr/bin/wget -q http://mysite/myscripts

thanks for your help Frob 23

The * means every possible matching value. In the hour field, this equates to 0-23. In the minute column, this equates to 0-59. Leaving the other fields as * means any day of week, any day of month, etc.

This is also the same as:
0 * * * * /path/to/my/program

You can run PHP scripts from the command line just like any other script if they are properly written.

The quote about it not being a shell script was refering to the crontab file. There is no need to set the shell type in user cron files. And, yes you can run anything like a normal program as long as you have the proper shell or interperter after the #!... You are right about the * being equal to all possible values. I have weird conventions sometimes; the 0-23 being one of them. I think it makes it easier to remember what I was doing without thinking about it.