Showing posts with label Easy Steps for Cron tab. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easy Steps for Cron tab. Show all posts

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 :)

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