Crontab: rewriting a file

Hi,

I need to recreate some php code files using the crontab. I already use the crontab to run several peices of php code for updating databases, but when I try to set up an entry for rewriting a php file I either get an error (stdin: is not a tty) or it does nothing at all.

This is a rough up of what I'm trying:

file1.php: this is the file to be rewritten

file2.php: contains the php code for recreating file1.php
the first line of file2.php is
#!/path to php/php -q

file3.sh: contains the line
/path to file2/file2.php > /path to file1/file1.php

In the crontab I have:

10,30,50 8-16 * * * /path to bash/bash -login -c /path to file3/file3.sh &

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Hope someone can understand this!

>> stdin: is not a tty

Because your option (--login) requires interactive. When it's interactive it doesn't read from stdin or ARGV.

Thanks for the reply freebsd.

I tried removing the -login but the code was not run. As far as I can see the -login tells bash to act as a login shell allowing code to be run as if running it from the command prompt.

Any other advice from anyone would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.