On 08-Jul-01 James, Yz wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> When running it as a normal PHP file, I get the cron daemon emailing me
> stuff like:
>
> automation/mail.php: ?: No such file or directory
> automation/mail.php: =: command not found
> automation/mail.php: =: command not found
> automation/mail.php: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token
> `mail("emailaddress@takenout",'
> automation/mail.php: line 7: `mail("emailaddress@takenout", "mail test",
> "$mailcontent", "$sender");'
>
>
try a wrapper
> When running it with the Perl style line at the top (as you suggested) I
> get, "no such file or directory."
>
> The script is Chmodded to 755 in both cases. And I saved it as a .php and
> .cgi file (with the root to bin/php in it). God knows what I'm doing wrong
> ;)
>
> James.
>
>> How are you executing the script? Does it come by and run 'php
>> yourscript.php' or does the script have a shebang ('#!/usr/bin/php') in
>> it? I've found that works well... just put that as the first line, and
>> it behaves as a shell script (after you make it executable, of course)
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James, Yz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:39 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: [PHP] Running PHP as a cron job....
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is probably going to sound incoherant, but....
>>
>> Do I have to do anything (other than change the permissions of a php
>> file)
>> to get it to run as part of a cron job? I created an extremely simple
>> file
>> that should just send a blank email to me (using mail()). I got an
>> email
>> from the cron daemon saying, "bad token", or something like that, yet
>> when
>> executed through a browser, the script behaves as it should.
>>
>> Do I have to write the php scripts differently to how I would if they
>> were
>> to be displayed in a browser?
>>
>> Neeed...Sleeeep.... ;)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James.
>>
>>
>>
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