Cron Scheduler

how to use cron ...

[le_gber]

Hi,

Just learn about this mighty cron scheduler and thought of using it ...

I've got several site which use stats systems which until now I updated manually (silly me ;) ).

What i've done is include the command to update them in the crontab file ( well more specifically a command to run a php script with includes in it for each of the site).

Now a question for you WW Webmasters. I want to purge the individual log files after every update:

is it possible to do it using php?

if yes what script would you use

if no how to do it using cron

Thanks for your help.

Leo

[jatar_k]

if you delete the individual logs will they be recreated? If so you could always just unlink [php.net] them when you are done processing them or rename them if you still need the old ones.

You could also rewind [php.net] the file pointer when you are done and just overwrite the contents with nothing.

[le_gber]

Hi, jatar_k and thanks for the tips (Iknow nothing about PHP which expalins why I asked).

I don't know if the log files will be recreated (will check with hosting company).

Alos it doesn't seems to work yet (although I think I did everything properly - logged in a root, modified the crontab did crontab -l to see if it worked and restarted the cron deamon) - but still no luck.

Anybody had experienced the same maybe?

Leo