Cron - Execute a file on another domain/server?

Ok,
I would like to run a cron job from CPanel on one server that executes a file on another (either .asp or .php) to update a database...

I'm used to MS hosts, so "Cron" is new to me, any ideas how I can make:
host1.com/
have a cron job to run:
host2.com/cron.asp

Thanks...

 

Not sure about how to do that.

However, you can try making a file, upload to host1.com and execute host2.com file using that.

 

The file on server 2 must be public and should be password protected.

Peace,

 

You can run php (perl/asp..) script on host1.com which get script on host2.com.

For example:

on host1.com (do with cron):

<?php

file_get_contents ('http://host2.com/make_db.php');
// also you can use CURL here to get more
// also do logging here to know if success

?>

on host2.com/make_db.php :

<?php

//do your task here

?>

in addition you can improve this idea using password protection of host2.com/make_db.php

Good luck!

 

Alternatively, you could always just use wget: it's a command line URL 'grabber', so you could just have cron execute something like:
wget http://site2.com/somepage.php

 

Awesome, thanks for the help guys...