We have PHP installed on a Novell Netware 6 server. To enable
subscriptions on a ubbthreads message board, we need to periodically
run a php script as a scheduled task.

While php works nicely through Apache, we haven't yet found out how to
launch a script from the command line / system console / scheduled
tasks in Netware 6.

You may find this useful :

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10024685.htm

I'm not familiar with Netware, but it seems like the Unix equivalent
of cron. I would think that you would enter your required run times as
noted on the page, with the full path to the script to execute it.

Thank you for the tip. 

It seems we already have the capability to run recurring tasks built
into Netware. We have tried this with a perl script, by using the
command line

perl script.pl

which worked. Our problem with PHP is that if you type in 

php script.php

we get an error message that there is no NLM (executable) named php
and we haven't found a php command to launch a script from the prompt.

just a thought ... if you might somehow have a fetch or links or some
similar command to 'get' the script something like fetch
http://localhost/script.php if not on server, then from a client fetch
http://server/script.php...

I know, not what you were looking for.

This is a free comment from an insomniac.

Otherwise :) convert to PERL :)

Another thought is that you could make a perl script to fetch the php website...