[henryw]

Hello,
I apologize if this is in the wrong forum.

When I edit my crontab file (using crontab -e), I want to include an additional file that has cron commands in it. This is so that I can include a file that is in a directory I sync to a couple of machines.

So as an example:

#crontab -e:>
10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/pscom/cron/accountsize.php
include "/path/to/other/cron/commands/file (THIS Line is the one I need to get working with your help!)


#tail /path/to/other/cron/commands/file:>
3,6,9,12,15,18,21,24,27,30,33,36,39,42,45,48,51,54 ,57 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/pscom/cron/smsqueue.php
* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/pscom/cron/mailqueue.php


Any help would be much appreciated.

[King Coder]

I'll move it to php... Guys there know a whole lot more about this than me

Hope you get it solved!

[Skeleton Man]

To my knowledge you can't "include" files with crontab.. all your commands need to be in the one crontab file. Why can't you put everything in the one file ?

[henryw]

Thanks for your reply.

I got around it by putting a sym link in /etc/cron.d/ to my project directory.

The reason was because I want to be able to rsync cron changes to the live environment as well.

[Skeleton Man]

Interesting workaround