I built an email alert for my users (now are only 2,000) so every night a crontab execute a php script that query the mysql to find matches with user's saved search. it's a classified website in my case, but i would like to learn in case i had to build something for bigger clients my concerns are: what happen if my user grow x10 or x...
I have a crontab that looks like: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ 0-59 * * * * /var/www/html/private/fivemin/zdaemon.php >> /dev/null & Simple as possible, right? zdaemon.php which I am just testing with is: #!/usr/bin/php <? while(true){ sleep(1); } ?> Whenever it runs it hangs li...
Hi, I entered some cron jobs, everything saved correctly (jobs added) I then went back and typed crontab -e to adjust something and I got a message: "illegal action" I also get this when typing crontab --help or crontab Wow...now when I open my terminal, I get: Could not open a new pseudo-tty. ...
Hi All, probably a daft question but.... I'm running a script from crontab that will just ssh and run a command and store the results in a file. the function that seems to be failing is subprocess.popen Here is the function def _executeSSHCommand(sshcommand,user,node): ''' Simple function to execute an ssh command on a remo...
Hi all, For a work project I am undertaking a task that will see me create a C#.NET Windows Service that will run 24/7. The program will essentially simply move files (based on a given path and a regex) between various locations - from/to HTTP, Network Paths and FTP. The administrator will schedule these jobs via an administration page...
Hello, I am using cpanel standard crontab set-up, I have the path to the file correct but the path leads to a password protected directory ie: *php /home/example/public_html/admin/script.php* admin is password protected, how would I allow the crontab access to the script? Thanks in advance. ...
I have several PHP files to be run by cron. I set up the crons using command- crontab crontab.txt Inside the crontab.txt file, I have written cron commands like this:- #(Updating tutor activities) - every minute * * * * * /usr/bin/wget -O - -q -t 1 http://project/cron/tutor_activities.php But none of the functionalities are working...
I am writing the command in crontab and its output is first asking the password. Is there any way to supply the password with command like mount -a < password ...
How do "modern" cron daemons internally schedule their jobs? Some cronds used to schedule a run every so often via at. So after a crontab is written out, does crond: Parse the crontab for all future events and the sleep for the intervals? Poll an aggregated crontab database every minute to determine if the current time matches the sc...
I have a Amazon EC2 Linux micro instance server that I need to fire an hourly process on. I have chosen to use crontab and cannot get it to fire. I placed a *.sh file in the /etc/cron.hourly If I run $ sh /etc/cron.hourly/notify.sh the script behaves as expected. I have checked to see if the cron service is running and it is. I have...
I have a cron job that executes a rake task in rails. I noticed in the log that it was running the task 4 times everytime it was executed. The problem is that there are 4 instances of cron running. I ran: /etc/init.d/crond stop And now there are only three. Running: ps -ef | grep cron I see this: root 1029 1 0 Oct20 ?...