I dont know why my script wont run. I have tried several solutions and im thinking maybe its the script? I know cron is working cause i used a script to make a new text document every minute and that worked and i dont know what to do. i need some help.
im trying to get it to run every hour but first i need to get it going. is there a way i can execute the php file myself to make sure it works? i use ubuntu 8.04.

NEVERMIND. SOLVED! THANKS ANYWAY

Please be so kind as to post problem and solution details as it may help others.

i will i just dont have this problem fixed yet.

i still cannot get my cron to work. does anyone else have any suggestions?

So why did you edit your OP to add "NEVERMIND. SOLVED! THANKS ANYWAY"?

Posting the script and execution details of the cronjob you're trying to run may help. Also check your (or root) email address as errors by default will be sent to the owner of the crontab.

Please be aware that cron has a limited PATH.
So try to use the whole path to all the commands and files in the script.

You hurt the logic centre of my brain a little.


Anyway, I think maybe this is the sentence that explains your problem:

The way you'd run the php script from cron is exactly the same as you're run it yourself to test it. Since you apparently don't know how to run the php script to test it then I suspect that you're not calling it correctly from the crontab.

To test the file yourself use

You use the same thing in the crontab


However if file.php makes reference to other files it needs to access using relative paths, as is the case in php script I set up to be run from cron the other day I'd use


Using cd first makes sure file.php could find those other files. If file.php If file.php used absolute paths for the other files it wouldn't be a problem.

I may be wrong of course. If I am post relevant stuff as unSpawn suggests.