Execute PHP script in cron job

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In our centos6 server  I would like to execute a php script in cron job as apache user but unfortunately it does not work   here is the edition of crontab  crontab -uapache -e   24 17       php  opt test php   and here is the source code of  test php  file which works fine with  apache  user as owner    lt  php exec   touch  opt test test txt     gt    I try to replace php with full path of php   usr local php bin php  but also it doesn t work  Thanks in advance  Please Help me

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I had the same problem    I had to run it as a user   00         root  usr bin php  var virtual hostname nz public html cronjob php

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Automated Tasks  Cron Cron is a time-based scheduling service in Linux   Unix-like computer operating systems  Cron job are used to schedule commands to be executed periodically  You can setup commands or scripts  which will repeatedly run at a set time  Cron is one of the most useful tool in Linux or UNIX like operating systems  The cron service  daemon  runs in the background and constantly checks the  etc crontab file   etc cron    directories  It also checks the  var spool cron  directory  Configuring Cron Tasks In the following example  the crontab command shown below will activate the cron tasks automatically every ten minutes    10          usr bin php  opt test php  In the above sample  the   10         represents when the task should happen  The first figure represents minutes     in this case  on every  quot ten quot  minute  The other figures represent  respectively  hour  day  month and day of the week    is a wildcard  meaning  quot every time quot   Start with finding out your PHP binary by typing in command line  whereis php  The output should be something like   php   usr bin php  etc php ini  etc php d  usr lib64 php  usr include php  usr share php  usr share man man1 php 1 gz  Specify correctly the full path in your command  Type the following command to enter cronjob  crontab -e  To see what you got in crontab  EDIT 1  To exit from vim editor without saving just click  Shift    And then type q

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You may need to run the cron job as a user with permissions to execute the PHP script  Try executing the cron job as root  using the command runuser  man runuser   Or create a system crontable and run the PHP script as an authorized user  as  Philip described   I provide a detailed answer how to use cron in this stackoverflow post   How to write a cron that will run a script every day at midnight

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