Cron Jobs

[TheServant]

I apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I have a basic question about CRON jobs. My provider has a little program, which I am guessing automatically creates CRON jobs. Basically I check boxes to say how often I want it to run and then enter a command to run. I want a php file of mine to run, but I can't get it to work.

I have tried:
http://mydomain.com/myfolder/myphpfile.php
/home/public_html/myfolder/myphpfile.php

And a few others which I can't remember. Should tehre be a run() or something around that or am I completely off track?!

Thanks for your help,
The Servant

[TheServant]

OK, I have found a site which explained what I wanted. Only problem is it's not working!

This is my command:
/home/myusername/public_html/myfolder/myfile.php

[ronverdonk]

I think you'll have to follow your provider's guidelines or contact him in order to get the correct format of the command you want to be executed by his program.

Ronald

[TheServant]

Thanks ronverdonk,
Just did and I have it working. This can be closed.

[ronverdonk]

Ok and good luck! See you again here some day.

Ronald

[TheServant]

Just one more question. My provider was not happy that I was running a cron every 10mins. I am basically updating 6 values per row in a table which may reach over 1000 rows (depending on whether my site is successful or not). Do you think this will be too load intensive every 10mins?

[ronverdonk]

I don't think 6000 rows/hour is too heavy a load on the system. Unless your provider has a very small system. But as long as you don't reach the agreed maximum there is not much the provider can do.

Ronald

[TheServant]

Is there anyway to tell?

[ronverdonk]

Ask your provider to give you the load details on your cron job. Providers usually collect everything, so he can provide you with this information.
What do you intend to do with the info anyway?

Ronald

[TheServant]

I am not sure, compare it? I have no idea what a "fast" or "big" script is parameterwise. I might just leave it and try it out. If I find it very slow I will come back here! Thanks for your help.

[ronverdonk]

Welcome any time.

ROnald