Help with CRON jobs?
How can i set up my crontab to execute X script at 11:59PM every day without emailing me or creating any logs? Right now my crontab looks something like this @daily /path/to/script.sh ...
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Why Doesn't My Cron Job Work Properly?
I have a cron job on an Ubuntu Hardy VPS that only half works and I can't work out why. The job is a Ruby script that uses mysqldump to back up a MySQL database used by a Rails application, which is then gzipped and uploaded to a remote server using SFTP. The gzip file is created and copied successfully but it's always zero bytes. Yet i...
How to run gpg from a script run by cron?
I have a script that has a part that looks like that: for file in `ls *.tar.gz`; do echo encrypting $file gpg --passphrase-file /home/$USER/.gnupg/backup-passphrase \ --simple-sk-checksum -c $file done For some reason if I run this script manually, works perfectly fine and all files are encrypted. If I run this as cron job, e...
What are options available to get cron's results and how to set them up ?
I know that default cron's behavior is to send normal and error output to cron's owner local email box. Is there other ways to get theses results (for example to send it by email to a bunch of people, to store them somewhere, and so on) ? ...
PHP/mySQL - regular recalcuation of benchmark values as new users submit their data
I am confronted with a new kind of problem which I haven't encountered yet in my very young programming "career" and would like to know your opinion about how to tackle it best. The situation A research application (php/mysql) gathers stress related health data from users. User gets a an analyses after filling in the questionnaire. Valu...
PHP: running scheduled jobs (cron jobs)
I have a site on my webhotel I would like to run some scheduled tasks on. What methods of achieving this would you recommend? What I’ve thought out so far is having a script included in the top of every page and then let this script check whether it’s time to run this job or not. This is just a quick example of what I was thinking abou...
Specifying "all odd values" in crontab?
In crontab, I can use an asterisk to mean every value, or "*/2" to mean every even value. Is there a way to specify every odd value? (Would something like "1+*/2" work?) ...
How do I set a task to run every so often?
How do I have a script run every, say 30 minutes? I assume there are different ways for different OSs. I'm using OS X. ...
What is the Windows version of cron?
A Google search turned up software that performs the same functions as cron, but nothing built into Windows. I'm running Windows XP Professional, but advice for any version of Windows would be potentially helpful to someone. EDIT: Is there also a way to invoke this feature (which based on answers is called the Task Scheduler) programat...
How do I list all cron jobs for all users?
Is there a command or an existing script that will let me view all of a *NIX system's scheduled cron jobs at once? I'd like it to include all of the user crontabs, as well as /etc/crontab, and whatever's in /etc/cron.d. It would also be nice to see the specific commands run by run-parts in /etc/crontab. Ideally, I'd like the output in a...
Create cronjob with Zend Framework
I am trying to write a cronjob controller, so I can call one website and have all modules cronjob.php executed. Now my problem is how do I do that? Would curl be an option, so I also can count the errors and successes? [Update] I guess I have not explained it enough. What I want to do is have one file which I can call like from http...
firefox not opening - cron, ruby, firewatir
I have written a ruby script which opens up dlink admin page in firefox and does a ADSL connection or disconnection. I could run this script in the terminal without any problem. But if I put it as cron job, it doesn't fire up firefox. This is the entry I have in crontab # connect to dataone 55 17 * * * ruby /home/raguanu/Dropbox/netti...
cron jobs on google appengine
How can I use cron on Google Appengine? ...
Background tasks on appengine
How to run background tasks on appengine ? ...
bash script runs from shell but not from cron job
Cron installation is vixie-cron /etc/cron.daily/rmspam.cron #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/rm /home/user/Maildir/.SPAM/cur/*; I Have this simple bash script that I want to add to a cron job (also includes spam learning commands before) but this part always fails with "File or directory not found" From what I figure is the metachar isn't being ...
Free Alternative to WebCron?
A service I've been using for cheap web hosting servers without cron access is a free service called webcron. However I just got an email from them today sayign they'll no longer be free: The downside of this improvements is the free account that will no longer be available. I was curious if anyone knows of any acceptable alte...
Deploying web apps that use cron
What is the best procedure for deploying web apps that rely on cron jobs (for cache maintenance, db updates, ...)? For things like DB schema changes, there are tools such as DBDeploy for managing the changes between versions, but how do you automate updates to the crontab? I know that the actual cron files are stored in /var/spool/ b...
What is the best method for scheduled tasks in PHP
Title sums it up, I know little about how I will do this. See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/120228/php-running-scheduled-jobs-cron-jobs ...
Can PHP detect if its run from a cron job or from the command line?
I'm looking for way to PHP to detect if a script was run from a manual invocation on a shell (me logging in and running it), or if it was run from the crontab entry. I have various maintenance type scripts written in php that i have set to run in my crontab. Occasionally, and I need to run them manually ahead of schedule or if something...
Process text files ftp'ed into a set of directories in a hosted server
The situation is as follows: A series of remote workstations collect field data and ftp the collected field data to a server through ftp. The data is sent as a CSV file which is stored in a unique directory for each workstation in the FTP server. Each workstation sends a new update every 10 minutes, causing the previous data to be over...