Re: [cobalt-users] PHP and crontab

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 6/12/00 11:51 AM, Dan at dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> 
>> 0 0 * * * * curl http://www.yoursite.com/myscript.php3
>> 0 0 * * * * lynx -dump http://www.yoursite.com/myscript.php3
>> will every night at midnight will execute cURL (a killer command
>> line stdout
>> web browser/tool) or use Lynx to essentially do the same thing,
>> respectively.
>> 
> I was looking for a method to call a CGI script on another server every day
> at a certain time. Would one of these accomplish that? Is curl something
> that's installed by default on a RAQ2?

Niether cURL nor Lynx come preinstalled on a Raq2.  Perhaps Lynx is
installed on the Raq3.  Wget may be installed on the Raq2.

> I tried the crontab:
> 
> 20 14 * * * * curl http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi
> 
> Then I received an email from the server:
> 
> From: Cron Daemon
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:20 PM
> Subject: Cron <admin@admin> * curl http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi
> 
> /bin/sh: script.cgi: command not found
> 
> Then I tried lynx -dump instead and got:
> 
> From: Cron Daemon
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:40 PM
> Subject: Cron <admin@admin> * lynx -dump
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi
> 
> 
> /bin/sh: script.cgi: command not found
> 
> Any ideas?

I think that is my bad... I don't think that the cron likes the multiple
arguments there.

So what you should do is soemthing like create a file call it something like
/home/sites/home/users/admin/snag.sh:

#!/bin/sh
curl http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi

make sure it is chmod'd to be executable (like 755), and make sure it is
owned by the owner of the crontab.


then put
20 14 * * * * /home/sites/home/users/admin/snag.sh

in your crontab.

It should work, if you have either curl or lynx installed (using the
appropriate command, of course).

-k