i tried to set it up, but didnt succeed.<br />i keep getting this message in my e-mail inbox.<br />root: not found<br /> <br />help?

What's the entry in your crontab for running doexpire.pl?

my file is called cronjobs and it's located in the root directory.<br />this is whats inside it.<br /><br />0 2 * * * root /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl<br />0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/vnukelog <br /><br /><br /><br />i've also got a file below it called crontab.save and inside it is this<br /><br />0 2 * * * root <br />/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl<br /><br />logout<br /><br />

Try removing "root" from the entry. I don't know why Infopop's documentation says to put that in.<br /><br />P.S. This is my 700th post, so I'm now an "old hand" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

lol oldhand!<br />ok, i'll give that a go and get back to you 2moro once the time has reached for it to carry out the task.<br />

[]P.S. This is my 700th post, so I'm now an "old hand"
<br />[/]<br /><br />Congrats Old Hand! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

ok, that didn't work.<br />whats next?

btw, when i get the e-mail saying it dont work, this is always in the subject line, if it's any help.<br />Cron <nickjenk> root /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl

Are you sure you removed the "root" from the crontab entry?

positive<br />although my file is called cronjobs not crontab, that make a difference?

Hmmmm ...... If "root" isn't in the cron table entry, then I don't know where it's getting the "root" from.<br /><br />On my server (Linux Redhat 7.0), I set up cron jobs using the crontab command. For example, crontab -l lists the cron table for the current user, and crontab FILENAME rebuilds the cron table from the text file FILENAME. Maybe it works differently on your server.<br /><br />If no one else has any ideas here, you might try asking in the UBB.threads How Do I? or Installation Assistance forum at Infopop Community.

hmmm, thats strange.<br />i just did the command crontab -l and it still says tjhe "root" bit is there.<br />but i just downloaded the file to check.<br />do i need to re-run something?

my bad!<br />i didnt rebuild it<br />it now says what it should<br />i'll let u know 2moro whether it was a success or not!

well, we're getting somewhere!!<br /><br />this is the report as of this morning<br /><br />usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl: permission denied<br /><br /><br />what does it mean? (apart from that access was denied <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )

I am NOT the cron job expert. Somehow I got it working on my server. LOL<br /><br />But, Can you successfully run the file from the command line?<br /><br />I'd check that first... make sure it runs for you. That'll narrow down if it's a permission thing, or a cron job thing.

how would i run it from command line?<br />whats the command?

Try changing the cron table entry to:<br /><br />0 2 * * * perl /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl

that doesnt work <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /><br />Can't open perl script "/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl": Permission denied<br />

[]how would i run it from command line?<br />whats the command?<br />[/]<br /><br />If you've got telnet or SSH access to the server... you could go into that directory and type doexpire.pl at the prompt to see if you can run it.<br /><br />If not, it's most likely a permissions thing. <br /><br />[]/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.pl[/]<br />Actually looking at your command......<br />Are you allowed to have doexpire.pl inside the PHP directory.... in other words... on your server can you run perl scrips outside of the cgi-bin directory.<br /><br />Some hosts don't let Perl scripts run elsewhere.<br /><br />Or should you be running doexpire.php???<br />What file(s) is actually in the /ubbthreads/cron/php directory?

ahhhh, well spotted joshpet!<br />i had php/doexpire.pl<br />no such thing!<br /><br />so i've amended it to php/doexpire.php<br /><br />and guess what, it wont bloody install! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />i'm now completley stumped.<br /><br />This is what is in my cronjobs file<br /><br /> [] 0 2 * * * /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/ubbthreads/cron/php/doexpire.php<br />0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/vnukelog [/] <br /><br /><br />and this is the error message i'm getting from telnet<br /><br /> [] "cronjobs":3: bad day-of-month<br />crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install[/] <br /><br />wtf?? <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />