What is a cron job?
A cron job is use to execute a particular script (code) on a scheduled time repeatedly.
What is cron job is use for?
Email marketing
Delete file
to send newsletter
How to setup cron job on a server
Login to the dashboard
Locate cron job and click on it
Then fill the for under add cron job
Select your command settings
This where you select may be the script will be execute once per day, once per week ,etc
Then select the minute,hour,day, monthly and weekend in which the cron job will be execute.
| minute | 0-59 | The exact minute that the command sequence executes |
| hour | 0-23 | The hour of the day that the command sequence executes |
| day | 1-31 | The day of the month that the command sequence executes |
| month | 1-12 | The day of the month that the command sequence executes |
| weekday | 0-6 | The day of the week that the command sequence executes (Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, and so forth) |
| command | special | The complete sequence of commands to execute. The command string must conform to Bourne shell syntax. Commands, executables (such as scripts), or combinations are acceptable. |
command
cd/home/user /public_html/admin; php -q auto.php
This command will open the folder admin on n the server,
Then php represent the format of the script
Follow by -q and then the file you want to execute
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