Mark Hensler — Wed, 28 May 2003 06:34:40 +0000

Oh, and the difference...

Say you had a script that required environmental variables (apache settings, etc.). Or you needed information from the client's HTTP Request header. Yadda yadda yadda. Or any interaction whatsoever with a user.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 28 May 2003 06:33:19 +0000

That is the directory, not the binary. So try this path:
/usr/local/lib/php/bin/php

I found the location by doing "whereis php". Which returned "/usr/local/php". I new the binary was "bin/php", so I appended that and used "/usr/local/php/bin/php".

nike_guy_man — Tue, 27 May 2003 20:50:06 +0000

I think you need to go to the executable PHP directory
Mine is /usr/bin/php
I never was able to get it to work as a standalone executable though.... bleh

Suzanne — Tue, 27 May 2003 20:30:42 +0000

/bin/sh: /usr/local/lib/php: is a directory

Is the new error, with this:

58 23 * * * /usr/local/lib/php -f /path/to/file/expiredfiles.php

? Ideas?

Suzanne — Tue, 27 May 2003 19:58:05 +0000

Okay, how do you know where php is?

Edit: nevermind, for my server it's /usr/local/lib/php and I find this by doing the <? php_info() ?> thing, it's the include_path, right?

Suzanne — Tue, 27 May 2003 19:30:56 +0000

oh wow, a new option!!

okay, trying that, thanks, Mark!

Quick Question: what's the difference between running it under apache and not running it under apache?

Mark Hensler — Tue, 27 May 2003 18:17:48 +0000

Hey hold up! No need to rewrite when you just need a simple crontab line...

Depending on how your script needs to run... under apache:
58 23 * * * lynx http://example.com/path/to/file.php
58 23 * * * wget http://example.com/path/to/file.php

not under apache:
58 23 * * * /path/to/php -f /path/to/file.php

on my linux box, php is at /usr/local/php/bin/php

If you're script has any output, you can redirect it with "2>/dev/null/" or any other log file "2>my.log".

Wil — Tue, 27 May 2003 17:49:55 +0000

Ok Suaznne, I'll take a look at the source from my office tomorrow. From what you describe, it should be easy enough -- Perl has the same good support for databases through the DBI set of modules as has PHP.

Suzanne — Tue, 27 May 2003 16:54:28 +0000

Heh, nah, I was just posting as I was learning. Sometimes I need to explain things to someone else in order to figure things out and there wasn't anyone nearby.

I don't think I gave anyone a chance to comment!

disaster-master — Tue, 27 May 2003 16:50:17 +0000

LOL...I don't think I have ever seen anyone post 6 times (talking to themselves) before someone steps in and answers.

I guess that is a disadvantage of knowing more than than most everyone else here huh?