I have just setup a cron job for the first time. It took some doing but I have it working in that it updates my rates now automatically. This is awesome. Here is how I am doing it:

1. I have a cron job run the following command: wget http://www.mysite.com/scripts/upd_rates.php

The email that I receive confirming is says that everything was okay and the file was downloaded. NOW, I don't really know what the command wget does. Does it actually download a file to the server? I don't really need to download it I just need it to run the .php file (since it is already on my server).

If there is a file downloaded and that is the only command that I can use to run it, where does it save the file? And how do i delete that downloaded file since I still have the original to run?

Any help is appreciated.

wget is an ftp fetch command (which does nothing but grap the file).

To run your script from your server make you cronjob do the following.

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

This then will simply run that script on the server which will give you the functionality your after.

Alternately (if you job has some extra functionality) you can put together a shell script which is called via cron that does all the other stuff (like removing files after download etc).

However since you dont need to download it but just run it you cna use the example above. just set your times and dates correctly.

Ibbo