Question

Via SSH, i type: crontab -e

Then the GNU nano editor opens the document, I’ve tried this different contents for the file:

5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55    *    *    *    *    /usr/bin/lynx -source http://mywebsite.com/includes/boot.php

—

5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55    *    *    *    *    http://mywebsite.com/includes/boot.php

—

5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55    *    *    *    *    home/myuser/includes/boot.php

After saving the file i get:

7953401631:~# crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
You have new mail in /var/mail/root

But none of them seems to work

What am i missing? BTW I am running under CentOS

Answer 1

You need to specify an interpreter. Hence you need something like

15 * * * * /path/to/php /path/to/script

Also check your system log if cron is running at all. Try

which php 

to get current php and path