PHP and login on a SSH/Putty to submit a command

Er I think I might of stated things wrong.

At the moment what the script will do is grab some text via CURL, then create a file with that text, then it has to run a linux command. It has to do this all in sync too.

I don't actually need the php script run every certain few, I might of just explained it wrong though, but what I'm tyring to do is either log on ssh/ftp wise and run a linux program, or just run the command itself since the script is running on the local machine where the linux program is.

Basicly the linux program will grab the information itself after running it, but everything must be there or else it will error out. For sakes lets just say I want to run a linux 'find' command every time I run the script.

Basicly my issue is how to run a linux command on the box without having to do it manually.

Here's an example of how to run things automatically... just replace the command with what you want it to run

# run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 1 1
# generate a daily summary of process accounting at 11:53PM
53 23 * * * root /usr/lib/sa/sa2 -A


This content should be saved in any filename under the folder /etc/cron.d/

forgot to say... after creating the above file... you should restart cron daemon

service crond restart

Okay well the file name is different, since the script stores a new file name every time. is there a possible way to have it like a vairable? for example the file name always goes up in number. like ich00, ich01, ich02

You can have the script store those values in a fixed file... then the script can pick up this number from the fixed file and act accordingly....

Okay so I can have the script run a program with the fixed file?

usually you run the program with the file being the thing its run, like for example "etc/progs/programhere file001"
"etc/progs/programhere file002"

negative....
you said your input files for the scripts vary... something generate these files... just ask that something to put the filename in a fixed file... then you can access the fixed file for the names of the input...

Or you can just make your script collect file names in that folder... depending on your business need to make decision which file to use... that should be a logical part of your script... it should NOT be called upon at the command line as part of the schedule....

You should run this in your schedule

*/30 * * * * /etc/progs/myscript

myscript MUST determine whether file002 is the argument to be used... if the argument needs to be dynamic... cron daemon doesn't do this to an extend... there are dynamic stuffs that you can do

*/30 * * * * /etc/progs/myscript `date %F`

This is a command that runs as /etc/progs/myscript 2008-07-30  

the "date %F" part enclosed within the `` signs actually executes on the fly and produces the date text... then serves as an argument for the command

atm they are both on the same machine, So you are telling me I can use a 'get' command to call a web service?