From: "Jonathan Villa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wget -q -O - www.domain.com/cron.php > /dev/null
> > Interesting... how does this fair concerning security? So I'll have to > have this file located in my document root, is this a good thing? My > current directory structure consists of several files located outside > the doc root. I guess I could always include it onto a page Well, I guess it would depend upon what your "cron.php" does. You must be aware that anyone can just type in the URL and run the script at any time, not just when the cron process runs it. For example, my "cron.php" script creates a mysql backup file and erases any backup files older than 30 days. When it runs, it first checks if the backup for today was already made or not. If it's already there, it does nothing. So, you can call this script all you want and it's not going to mess up anything. Again, it depends on what your script is doing, though. Yes, it's safer to keep it outside of the webroot and call it via the command line. This way you know it's only being called by cron and only when you want it. It just depends on whether you can do that on your system or not. ---John Holmes... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
