"gagal" <lynettesmith@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I wrote a script to send out a birthday email each month. When I
> tried to run as a cron job I got "no file found". I'm using cpanel
> and have file in folder ie crons/birthdayemail.php. I figured I gave
> it wrong url in my cron but I'm not sure what to do.
>

Is it the file in the previous post?

Could be some problem with the include - I had trouble getting includes to
work in a cron job until I put

chdir(dirname(__FILE__));

at the top of the file I was calling in the cron.

Also the command to run was
usr/bin/php -q /home/MYHOST/public_html/MYDOMAIN/FOLDER/FILE.php

which was a bit more complex that I'd realised I would need!

On Jul 19, 2:58 am, "Marnok.com" <wizardha...@pottermarnok.com> wrote:
> "gagal" <lynettesm...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1184718859.232297.98790@j4g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com...
>
> >I wrote a script to send out a birthday email each month. When I
> > tried to run as a cron job I got "no file found". I'm using cpanel
> > and have file in folder ie crons/birthdayemail.php. I figured I gave
> > it wrong url in my cron but I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Is it the file in the previous post?
>
> Could be some problem with the include - I had trouble getting includes to
> work in a cron job until I put
>
> chdir(dirname(__FILE__));
>
> at the top of the file I was calling in the cron.
>
> Also the command to run was
> usr/bin/php -q /home/MYHOST/public_html/MYDOMAIN/FOLDER/FILE.php
>
> which was a bit more complex that I'd realised I would need!

Thanks, It was a command line problem. I had to use

wget -O /dev/null url