[rawedge]

I've found the Cron Job editor in Hspere but i'm a bit perplexed

I want to set up a a cron job to periodically view http://mydowmain.co.uk/wp-mail.php

how do I fill the thing in to do this, i think the command is

wget -N http://mydomain/wp-mail.php

but I don't get all the numbers bit

cheers

Rawedge

[A-Wing]

ok, if it is anything like the crontab I know and love the numbers are as follows:

"Minutes" "Hours" "Day of Month" "Month of Year" "Day of Week"

So if you want something to run every 5 minutes you can do:

*/5 * * * * /path/to/executable

Or 13:43 every day:

43 13 * * * /path/to/executable

I hope this makes it clearer.

[raw-edge]

I've tried that and it isrunning the command every 15 minutes however I can't get the command right, i've tried putting www. and not using it in the domain bit, but i'm getting permission denied errors in the email it sends e.g

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
)

any suggestions to what the command would be? do I need shell access turned on?

[A-Wing]

Thatt basically means the user you are adding the cron jobs on doesn't have access to the 'wget' command. This is for good reason as many hack attempts use 'wget' to exploit servers.
You can get round this by changing the permissions on /usr/bin/wget, or running the cron job as a higher privilaged user.
Shell access only turns on SSH so you shouldn't need that for the cron jobs (although if you get stuck then you may need to SSH in and do it as root or something similar.

Regards
Andrew

[raw-edge]

cheers, I don't suppose anyone knows what is supported on the sharted servers?

i'll give curl and lynx a try

thanks

R

[A-Wing]

I'm on VPS so can't really advise on the shared setup. Time for me to step down and XILO techs to step in

If you get really stuck though you should be able to re-write your script in a shell php script and use php's curl functions (if enabled on the server).

Assuming the hosting server runs CentOS or another RedHat derivative you should find 'links' will work instead of 'lynx' if installed.

[Kieran]

wget doesn't work on shared servers at xilo. You can use GET or php to execute php files in cron jobs.

[rawedge]

Thanks folks, i've had no luck getting it to work, I can get the time fine but it's the command that I can't get i've tried lynx CURL GET and WGET, but clearly I can't get the command correct

[Kieran]

Try "php", so your cron might be:-

php /home/USER/public_html/wp-mail.php

You also might like to try GET in the following format; I am using this format for WordPress on a shared server and it is working fine.

GET http://www.domain.co.uk/wp-mail.php > /dev/null

[A-Wing]

Or write a php script to do it and at the top put:
#!/usr/bin/php

Then it can be executed as a shell script