How to make a minutely cronjob on debian?

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Can someone help me?

The "action" should be "php /var/www/cronjob/index.php"

i have no idea!

Cron works well down to one minute resolutions, but it fuzzes a bit around that mark. If it's important that it runs at the top of the minute very precisely, you may need to daemonize the PHP app in question. — Jodie C, Jul 21, 2011 at 13:55

k102 · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-21 08:32:15Z

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*/N * * * * /path_to_php/php /var/www/cronjob/index.php

N - number of minutes. and you may need to specify full path to php (/usr/local/bin/php or whatewer)

answered Jul 21, 2011 at 8:32

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In my experience you always need to specify the full path, especially if you're running as a user such as www-data. The path to PHP is /usr/bin/php by default on Debian.
– pwaring
Jul 21, 2011 at 8:49
@pwaring, thanks, i'm not very familiar to debian, so don't remember it's path
– k102
Jul 21, 2011 at 8:53
To make dealing with cronjob configuration easier, create a command on the shell which executes your PHP. This allows to change the details over time w/o changing the crontab, like a changed path to PHP or if you'd like to modify the php configuration of that task in specific. It will make the crontab easier to read as well.
– hakre
Jul 21, 2011 at 8:56

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Shef · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-21 08:30:52Z

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* * * * * php /var/www/cronjob/index.php

1: * = every minute

2: * = every hour

3: * = every day of month

4: * = every month

5: * = every day of week

answered Jul 21, 2011 at 8:30

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