Run a script once a day?

[Palmer ofShinra]

OK... I have a script I want to run exactly once a day, at midnight.

It's fully automated and requires no human intervention.

I just need it to go off EXACTLY once a day, on time, to update several tables.

How the hell would I go about this?

[amykhar]

cron. Who's your web host? If they use cpanel3, there is a form that you can fill out. Accepting the default 0 0 0 * * * will make it run exactly at midnight each day.

Otherwise read the cron man pages is the best advice that I can give.

Amy

[Palmer ofShinra]

We're using Ventures Online... CPanel3

I tried using the crontab on it, with the lynx -dump suggested in the robotmod hack thread... but it didn't seem to work...

Any other ways to do this?

[amykhar]

Same host :D Here's how ya do it. You need the full path to lynx.

Here's mine:

/usr/bin/lynx -dump http://www.eaforums.com/xxx.php


Hope it works for you. :)

Amy

[Palmer ofShinra]

Grr...

This just doesn't want to work...

I set Minutes to 10 minutes past the current time...
Hours to * (which should be "Every hour")

And the command is

/usr/bin/lynx -dump http://130.94.171.148/board/dummyscript.php?action=dosomething

And nothing.

I can access the correct URL while not logged into the VB and have it execute just fine...

But no matter how many times I try it... nothing happens.

I guess I'll try something else...