[bigfatdoug]

Hi,

I'm trying to launch a php script every hour but not getting much success.

I've edited crontab OK and made it simply use osascript to 'say' something. That worked OK.

I can also call the following shell script manually from the terminal and that triggers my PHP script.

#!/bin/sh
cd /Users/Me
/usr/bin/php sync.php --update --expire

But I can't make it work so that the crontab calls the shell script which triggers the PHP.

I can't figure it out. Do the scripts have to be in specific places to work? Is it a permissions thing?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[ctlq]

It could be a permissions thing depending on your setup but you can figure that one out easy enough by adding it to the root crontab. It looks like though, you aren't specifying the full path to the script.

your crontab entries can either look like this:
0 5 * * * /usr/bin/php /web/unified/download.php
or like this:
0 5 * * * /web/unified/download.php

For the latter to work you need to add this line to the top of your php file:
#!/usr/bin/php

(note: your php path my differ)

[bigfatdoug]

Thanks for the reply.

All working now although I have a suspicion that part of the problem was my cron table suffering after too many edits. In the end I reverted to a saved version, applied my changes and it worked. It also seems that playing with the system clock - eg. setting it to just before the cron job is due, means the script fails to run sometimes. Restart sorts it out though.

Thanks again.