Cron Tabs

[McDude]

I know you can perform cron through cPanel, but can this be done through Shell?

[Jason]

Hey McDude,

Thanks for being HTMLforums' first customer in the server administration area :). Setting up a cron is pretty easy to do through a Linux shell. You can fins instructions here:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/cron-task.html

[McDude]

Thanks for that Jason, didn't think to look in a manual.

[darksidepuffin]

I posted a tutorial on this a while back, maybe it should be moved here?

http://www.htmlforums.com/showthread.php?t=55260

[darksidepuffin]

Hehe..thanks to Cheryl, my tutorial has been moved here...along with a request for more tutorial ideas.

[McDude]

Thanks I have already seen it after I posted. Great stuff :)

[darksidepuffin]

Hehe..I know..I saw your post "shouldn't this be in the server forum".

Hehe...glad you liked it. Anything else you want me to cover..or..perhaps..any questions?

[McDude]

I was basically wanting to know how to run PHP files for my custom forum for my site. Found this out now thanks loads.

[darktown]

Do you know webmin?
You can admin every service that you want + your crontabs.

Great tool for Linux N00bs :)

http://www.webmin.com

[NerdLib]

Easy way to cron a PHP job is as follows:



01 07 * * * root /usr/bin/php /path/to/file/run.php