Comments on: cron jobs

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:12:29 +0000

One more note - to what I had posted awhile ago above about the lynx command… if you need to specify a username/password for the folder/file you're trying to access it would look like this:

lynx -dump http://www.mydomain.com/cronjobname.php -auth=USERNAME:PASSWORD

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:10:01 +0000

Another useful page.

which indicated these syntax specifically:
Run once a year: "0 0 1 1 *"
Run once a month: "0 0 1 * *"
Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0"
Run once a day, "0 0 * * *"
Run once an hour, "0 * * * *"

By: brady

brady — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 03:19:09 +0000

This is just what I needed. Thanks.

By: patricia

patricia — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

and then there's knowing about it, but having no clue how to implement it. i keep saying that one of these days i'll look into cron jobs, but it just don't make it onto the to-do list.

thanks for the post.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ok ive tried the cron example above but im trying to use the srcipts in PERL and they aint running, is perl compatible and do i need any special "programs" to get them to work?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

the example above is specifically for a PHP script to run… I don't think you need to put anything before it to get it to run CGI - does your script run successfully outside of cron? (ie. is is the script or the cron job setup?)

Also just a note (not really related to your quesiton - but to CRON in general) in one case I had trouble with the above for a php script - but it DID work fine if I loaded it up in a browser. I was told to do this instead:

lynx -dump http://www.mydomain.com/cronjobname.php

and that worked… not sure if that's a univeral thing or not (that "lynx" thing…)