Hi all,

we are doing our first cron job and just need a little bit of guidance.

We have the php file containing the script that we want to run.
We want it to run every 5 days

We have put the file (cron_example.php) into the home directory.

From the research that we have done we need to add the following into the command line?
/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/insert-username/cron_example.php

the "-f" runs the cron_example script I believe??
We had to put the path to the php on our site "/usr/local/bin/php"
and the path to the script "/home/insert-username/cron_example.php"

Is this all correct?

Also to make it run every 5 days, is it correct to put:

"*/5" in the "days" input box?

Cheers,

look forward to catching up tonight.

Hi Chris,

You want to do something like:

0 0 */5 * * (every fifth day, allowing every day of the week and running every month).
php -q /home/insert-username/cron_example.php

Hope that helps.

Max
edit: every fifth day is */5