cronjob ?

parisien · 27. August 2012, 21:11

Hello.

i have professional servers and i want trigger a php script each x minutes.

the php script is like that :
domain.fr/test.php

can i use the cronjob on the vti panel to trigger my php scrit that is on a remote webserver ?

Thank you.

Cimarast · 27. August 2012, 21:25

Yes; you can use "wget" to fetch the script regularly with a crontab entry.

parisien · 27. August 2012, 21:37

Thank you for your answer.

It is not easy to change that with the remote control.

Is there a file in the vu+ filesystem in which i can add this cronjob ?

Thank you.

Cimarast · 27. August 2012, 22:21

Original von parisien
It is not easy to change that with the remote control.

I guess so

Is there a file in the vu+ filesystem in which i can add this cronjob ?

Yes, of course; are you familiar with one of the Linux/Unix editors? vi or joe? Then use the "crontab -e" command and add a line like

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* * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O- http://www.domain.fr/test.php >/dev/null 2>&1

to your crontab.

If you don't know "vi", I'd suggest you use "joe"; in that case start the crontab command as

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EDITOR=joe crontab -e

and when ready editing, save the contents via the command Ctrl-K Ctrl-X.

parisien · 27. August 2012, 23:40

Hello thank you for all your help.

i know to use vi and i just checked how to use crontab.

just one last little question.

why the
2>&1

at the end of the line ?

shouldn't it be
>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
?

Thank you

Cimarast · 27. August 2012, 23:43

That redirects STDERR (error output) to STDOUT (default output). That way every output will be discarded, you won't get an email if an error occurs.

parisien · 27. August 2012, 23:49

Hello.

you just answered as i was editing my post

but it is ok.

i understand.

thank you for your help. il will try just after updating my vti image to the 4.2

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