Cron Question

Discussion in 'PHP' started by wendallb, Jul 4, 2007.

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    I have regular cpanel hosting and I need a cronjob or a small program to dump the main mail inbox every day. I know there is a cron for this but don't know how to code it.

    Help appreciated.
     
    wendallb, Jul 4, 2007 IP
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    ansi Well-Known Member

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    try something along the lines of this. this will run every 12 hours but you can change it rather easily. didnt know how often you wanted to perform the action :)

    
 0 */12 * * * /home/user/maildump.php > /dev/null 2>&1
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    /dev/null is pretty much the garbage collecter. so output there and you shouldn't have to worry about anything.
     
    ansi, Jul 4, 2007 IP
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    wendallb Active Member

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    Ansi thanks, I will give this a try.

    All the Best,
     
    wendallb, Jul 4, 2007 IP
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    Or you can also use this formatting for cron to execute phps ;-)
     
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    ansi Well-Known Member

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    whoops. yeah that would be a good idea. didnt think about that. haven't done any work running php through cron but he's right. you need to use php -q to execute it.

    
0 */12 * * * php -q /home/user/maildump.php > /dev/null 2>&1
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    ansi, Jul 6, 2007 IP