You already have the php script, so use that. modify it so that it does exactly what you need on your system, so that when you call it up through www.youdomain.com/script.php, it does what you need without any user interaction or producing any output to the screen (email or log file is okay).
Then, you can use lynx as the program to call in your cron job. lynx -dump http://www.yourdomain.com/script.php It may be --dump, can't remember. You can use wget, too, if nec. Read the man pages on cron for how to set that up or do a search on google. ---John Holmes... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Meeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: [PHP] OT cron/perl/php.. I've found a really handy php script (mysqlphpbak) that will backup all mysql databases for me via mysqldump. I'm using a cobalt raq server, and according to them, I can create a script and put it in a cron-daily directory, and that script will be executed. How do I create that script? Does it have to be in perl, and if so, how would you code it? Or could it be a php file? Sorry for the exceedingly off-topic post, I'm obviously new to the sysadmin side of things... Kelly -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
