Re: cronjob.....

"Brian K. White" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma
Organization Aljex Software
Message-ID <[email protected]>
System wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I want to schedule a cronjob for every 30 mins. which will execute a script
> on http://somedomain.com/test.php
> 
> Can I do this?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Tina....

vi /etc/crontab
5,35 * * * * root wget -q -O /dev/null http://somedomain.com/test.php

or...

5,35 * * * * root echo "GET test.php" |nc somedomian.com 80 >/dev/null


You didn't say what, if anything you wanted to do with output that the cgi 
generates, merely that you wanted to hit the cgi (presumably simply to 
cause it to run), so the above examples simply discard all output from the 
cgi. You could have it wind up in an email to root, or saved in local 
files, or always overwriting the same local file etc... but you will have 
to investigate wget's "-O" and "-nc" options yourself since you neglected 
to be forthcoming about your actual wishes.

it's a pretty good idea to replace the word "root" with some 
non-priviledged user too

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