Hello,

I wrote I a small php script that reads an xml file from a different host and writes it to a directory on my host. The script works ok if I run it via browser or command line (php -f /home/httpd/vhosts/somedir/httpdocs/sms/the_script.php). However, does not seem to run when I set a crontab.

The crontab job looks like this when listed with



Any ideas what could be wrong?

I set permision 755 on the_script.php and 644 to the file the_script.php writes to. The containing directory to 755

You might just want to use wget if you can. For example what I use right in the domain contrab is something along the lnies of

Thanks Squire for your answer. I am no completely sure what this is doing. Would wget call the script as if it were an browswer causing it to execute? The -O /dev/null directive sends any output to /dev/null? What if my script has no output, I still need -O?

Thanks so much.