[Techtalk] A PHP script in a crontab.

[John Clarke]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:54:55 -0500, David Merrill wrote:

> If you're using run-parts to execute the script, be aware that it only
> recognizes filenames containing letters, digits, underscores and
> hyphens. NO PERIODS. So a script named "script.php" wouldn't run. I once

That's not always the case.  On Redhat (7.0, 7.3, 9) it excludes only:

    *~
    *,
    *,v
    *.rpmsave
    *.rpmorig
    *.rpmnew
    *.swp


Cheers,

John
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