CRONTAB
Posted by: King2k5
Posted on: 2006-03-31 14:21:00
Hi, im looking to add a crontab to my site. Could someone tell me how i would go about doing this? I want it do do something every 5 minutes, 7 days a week.
Posted by: King2k5
Posted on: 2006-03-31 14:21:00
Hi, im looking to add a crontab to my site. Could someone tell me how i would go about doing this? I want it do do something every 5 minutes, 7 days a week.
Posted by: Raz2133
Posted on: 2006-03-31 14:35:00
There is a wiki article on Crontab here...
http://www.wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Crontab
It might have enough information to get you started.
Mark
Posted by: King2k5
Posted on: 2006-04-04 11:17:00
ok, so i have this example: 10 16 * * * /home/someone/bin/mycoolscript.pl
but where do i put that? what do i name the file?
Posted by: matttail
Posted on: 2006-04-04 15:31:00
You'll have to log into your server with SSH. After that you'll type:
crontab -e
to edit your cron file. Past in that line you have, then press
ctrl o
at the same time to save, and
ctrl x
to exit. You should get a success message about the new file being installed.
If you need help logging into your server with SSH, check out the wiki, there's a pretty good article there.
-Matttail