Cannot setup cron job.

[pbayly]

I am having trouble setting up a cron job using the command line.

I have a website which must run a once off Cron Job at a time designated by the users input.

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// $expirydatetime is a timestamp;
$min = date("i",$expirydatetime);
$hour = date("H",$expirydatetime);
$day = date("j",$expirydatetime);
$month = date("n",$expirydatetime);
$dow = date("N",$expirydatetime);

$commandline_expression = $min." ".$hour." ".$day." ".$month." ".$dow." /var/

http://www/vhosts/exsite.name/subdomains/tipoff/httpdocs/autosend.php?d=".$dealid;

echo "<br />".$commandline_expression."<br />";
//exec($commandline_expression);
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Unfortunately I cannot get the command line expression to work in the command line when logged in under Root.

I get the following response when pasted into the SSH command line.


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-bash: 06: command not found
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Please help, any assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

[ZaSter]

That looks like a Perl program. If so, then you need to run it the perl command.

 

[Noway2]

Actually, I believe its PHP, which does look a lot like perl.
Three things. 1 - What is in $commandline_expression?, 2 - do you need to to echo (or print) the value to a server variable in order to get it to execute to the command line? It looks to me like the script would attempt to print this to the web page. 3 - Do you have a proper script referred to by $commandline_expression (e.g. it begins with #!/usr/bin/sh) AND is it set as an executable script?

 

[Annihilannic]

It looks to me like $commandline_expression is actually constructed in the format of a crontab line, therefore you'd expect it to be added to the user's crontab, not executed. But then it is being printed out between some HTML tags, so this is a bit of a confusing mess really! To further confuse things the autosend.php "script" is being called with some HTTP GET style parameters, which won't work from the shell command-line anyway, so even if it was added to crontab correctly I don't see how it would work.

Annihilannic.