Quote Originally Posted by labrat View Post
My Cron Job Finally Works! Here's how:

If you are like me and this is your first cron job then the learning curve is steep. My web host said I need to prefix the URL with the path to the PHP module hence the /usr/bin/php at the beginning. They also said to use an absolute path instead of an http://xxx . But it's this last bit that actually got it working. The PHP variable "?" needed to be removed from the URL and left with a space.

So instead of:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/MYUSERNAME/PATH/mailhive.php?MYID=run

It became:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/MYUSERNAME/PATH/mailhive.php MYID=run

Took me a week to work it out. Hope your journey is shorter.
GREAT Module BTW!!

Cheers,
Rob
I just anted to say thank you for posting this, i have never used cron before and was having so much trouble and your solution worked perfectly, thank you so much