can crontab run scripts on another server?

[tkraffty]

Hi - Here's a possibly dumb question here from a rusty Unix girlie-man

Is it possible to set-up a crontab process on a Unix account that will trigger an external script located on a completely different account on another machine?

I've got a PHP application running on a Windows box, which includes a timed/scheduled process I'd like to keep - without having to figure out some strange Frankenstein-like PHP/ASP hibrid code - so I thought I'd just "send a signal" if possible from another Unix account I have setting around...

Cheers,

TK

[dpyers]

Yup. In cron, specify the Lynx browser to execute a script anywhere. Route output to dev/null. IIRC, you have to submit a TT to get Secure Shell access first. There's a secure shell client for windows on the Vortech tools page.

[tkraffty]

Just a reminder: I'm stupid Can you provide an example?

-- This is the chron command provided by this new software I'm working with (which runs the script every Sunday at midnight) --

59 23 * * 0 php /full/path/to/script.php

-- Here's what I'd LIKE it to do, but I have no idea of the correct syntax:

59 23 * * 0 php http://somepath.tosome.com/script.php

-- Would this be the correct syntax?

59 23 * * 0 php lynx -dump http://somepath.tosome.com/script.php

[dpyers]

It would be something like this
59 23 * * 0 /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump /dev/null http://www.yourdomain.com/somepath/script.php > /dev/null

I was wrong about the Secure Shell requirement. Go into ftp manager for the domain. There's an option for editing/adding cron entries there.

EDIT: - That's ftp manager for the unix domain.

[ekrubonline]

Hi, I'm not much of a UNIX person, but I'm trying to help a friend of mine to figure out how he can solve a similar problem. He himself wants to run an external process - this one's an ASP process. Can you really spell out what you put there in that response?

Now remember, I'm a UNIX newbie, but I really think he shouldn't try those PHP/ASP (not so) quick fixes he was talking about.

[dpyers]

I had done a simple how-to here...
http://forum.vortechhosting.com/showthread.php?t=8183

[Silverbug]

hey i was in the same boat too, but its really easy. there is a good thread explaining it here...
http://forum.vortechhosting.com/showthread.php?t=8183

EDIT: darn too slow