run cronjobs and send to email problems

Question

I want to create cronjobs that runs every 10 min < time now

and mail me a email with the follow txt.

"deleted orders"

my code looks like this.

MAILTO=”my_email@mail.com”
*/10 * * * * /var/www/php-sites/dlf/cron_jobs.php

I have checked my mails the last 30 min.. and still havent receive any mails. am i doing it wrong ?

Answer 1

First of all, as I remember php scripts should be executed this way (example for Ubuntu path, not sure about other distros):

/usr/bin/php-cgi /var/www/php-sites/dlf/cron_jobs.php

Also you can save the job output into the file to see the exact reasons of failures, for your job it can look like:

*/10 * * * * /usr/bin/php-cgi /var/www/php-sites/dlf/cron_jobs.php > /tmp/cron.out 2>&1

Check the cron.out contents.

Hope this helps.

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EDIT

I did small test and usual Shell way seems to work too. I've created the script phptest.sh (+x) with contents:

#!/usr/bin/php-cgi

echo "It works this way!";

And it seems to work, except one thing. It throws the headers in the stdout, like this:

***@***:~$ ./phptest.sh
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10-2ubuntu6.3
Content-type: text/html

echo "It works this way!";

But I suppose we can get rid of them somehow, if they are a problem.

The only advantage of this is shorter path :)