My VPS was upgraded, and now my custom script doesn't seem to work. Here's the script:


<?php
// Maximum acceptable daily transfer, in MB:
$trigger = 10000;
// Your email address:
$mail_to = "mycell@messaging.sprintpcs.com";

$today = `/usr/bin/vnstat -s | grep today`;
$parts = explode("/",$today);
$total = trim($parts[2]);
$t_parts = explode(" ",$total);
$totalnum = trim($t_parts[0]);
if (stristr($totalnum,",")) { $totalnum = str_replace(",","",$totalnum); }
if ($totalnum > $trigger) {
$mail_subj = " Excessive bandwidth usage?";
$mail_msg = "Today's VPS bandwidth usage has reached $total\n\n";
$mail_msg .= "(triggered at $trigger MB.)";
mail($mail_to, $mail_subj, $mail_msg, "From: $mail_to");
}
?>
~



and here is what I get at the command prompt



root@norway [/]# ./checkbw
./checkbw: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
./checkbw: line 2: //: is a directory
./checkbw: line 3: =: command not found
./checkbw: line 4: //: is a directory
./checkbw: line 5: =: command not found
./checkbw: line 7: =: command not found
./checkbw: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./checkbw: line 8: `$parts = explode("/",$today);'





I'm trying to run it as root, and I've played with the permissions, they seem to do no good. My other php sites are fine


Any ideas?

You need to either

php < ./checkbw

or add
#!/usr/bin/php
(or wherever your php binary is located)

to the first line of your script then chmod 755 the file.

worked great, thanks!