Friday, October 3, 2008

Easy steps for setting Cron tab

Step #1: Open Remote Access Software like Putty, if you are not having putty then download from here, click here to download

Step #2: connect your site using putty

Step #3: give FTP username and password on putty

Step #4: ls -l (give this command for displaying all the folders and files in the root folder)

Step #5: crontab -l (give this command for displaying all the available cron files in our site)

Step #6: crontab -e (give this command for edit mode to the crontab files)

Step #7: Press the key 'i' before write our cron file into the server (i for INSERT Mode)

Step #8: paste our cron file in the editor

Ex:

0 10 * * * wget -O /dev/null http://evergreenphp.com/mycron.php

If you want a cron job to run on every day 10 a.m. then the cron command will be like above..

Step #9: Press ESC key and afterwards press (COLON W Q) for save our cron file in our server

Step #10: or you can Press ESC key and afterwards press (COLON Q) for without save the cron file in the Editor

Step #11: crontab -l (to recheck our cron file is entered in the crontab or not)

Step #12: Exit (to get out of the putty editor)

Step #13: Enjoy, with evergreenphp :)

1 comment:

phpexpert said...

nice article, thankz..!

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