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I want to make a newsletter for my website, but how can i use cron job in order to send newsletters via e-mail to all my subscribers. I have created a script that creates the e-mail content and send an e-mail but how can i make it acces that script automaticaly.
Mike -
you can use wget or even rsync to access the script .. you might want to specify a unique "key" to pass to the script to ensure that you are the only one running the script.
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- CommentAuthordmitryseliv
- CommentTimeOct 23rd 2006
What kind of script you need to execute with a cron job?
PHP,CGI,PERL something else.
Best, DS -
I am working on a BSD box right now, but I would imagine that *nix boxes work the same way. If yo uare using PHP, then the following should work.
#
#minute hour mday month wday who command
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# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1 3 * * * root periodic daily
15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly
#HERE's THE LINE YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR CRONTAB
1 3 * * * php /path/to/your/script.php
This will run the script.php as php at 3:01 every morning. Note (you may have to have php set up as a cgi module. i'm not sure). -
i've got a PHP that's awaiting to be automaticaly started every week.
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This should hyelp you.
15 4 * * 6 php /path/to/your/script.php
4:15 in the morning every 6th day of the week(I think I'ts Friday.)
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