Oldie but goodie: crontab
There's one more approach that can be taken when scheduling jobs with cron, and that's the "crontab". The crontab is the oldest and most standard approach to scheduling with cron, so you'll occasionally...
Fine-grained control: cron.d
We've talked about using basic cron directories to run tasks on a standard schedule, but what if you want a schedule that's a bit less standard? What if you want to run a script every five minutes, or...
What is cron?
Behind the scenes, your server runs maintenance scripts on regular schedules. Some run nightly, some weekly, some might even run every five minutes. The scheduling for those tasks is done through a system called "...
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please make sure that you set up the cron job "command type" to be Perl to properly execute the shell script (.sh file). Cron jobs that run over 900 seconds (15...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic Cloud...
There are several reasons why you may not have recieved email confirmation that your cron job completed successfully. Here are a few things to check:
1. Please confirm that you entered in your email address correctly within the...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic Cloud...