What permissions to set on a file to make it only accessable to CRON JOB?

[physaux]

Hey guys, I finished writing a script and I want to schedule it. My only issue is that I don't know how to reference it if it isn't in public_html, but I don't know how to secure it if it is in html.

 

Any ideas?

 

for now I use something like this: wget -q http://site.com/.../cron.php

Which works fine but the problem is anyone could activate that. I want only cron to be able to do it. Any ideas?

[jl5501]

cron ideally needs full path info to all its files, and can access files anywhere on the server, so placing it outside of the html directories is a good idea

 

[akitchin]

what do you mean by you don't know how to reference it if it's above the web root? do you mean you don't know the disk path to the file?