Ubuntu crontab php not working

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

Yes, I have read many, many documentations but I can't get it to work. I have a simple single php file which I want to run once or twice in a minute. My php file is called: cronjob_refresh.php and I'm using Ubuntu 12.

After typing

crontab -e

I'm getting in terminal:

root@cron:~# crontab -e

no crontab for root - using an empty one

888

I don't know what '888' is meaning... And I'm writing (after 888) my cronjob string

*/1 * * * * php /var/www/cronjob/cronjob_refresh.php

After hitting enter I'm getting '?' symbol after the cronjob string entered.

root@cron:~# crontab -e

no crontab for root - using an empty one

888

*/1 * * * * php /var/www/cronjob/cronjob_refresh.php

?

Then I hit CTRL + Z to exit. After all this I'm executing

crontab -l

to check if the cronjob is added to my cronjob list but it's saying that the list is empty.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Also I wan't to execute twice in a minute, 30 - 30 sec. How to set the cronjob? I want to log everything in a file named logs.log in the same directory, is this is possible?