I was going through my cpanel and came upon cron jobs. I was wondering if anybody could tell me what they do and how to make them do that. Thanks to whoever helps me

My understanding of Cron Jobs is they are scripts or programs which can be set to run automatically on a scheduled basis. For example, the script which detects the "suspended" users here on the forum could be a cron job. Also, a cron job could be used to automatically back-up your mysql databses every 6 hours or once a day at midnight. They would have to be something which can run unattended and from a command line entry. There would be no personal interaction with the process, to either start or stop the job, or handle physical devices to accept output. ie: feed paper into a printer or remove disks or cd's from the machine.
Might be wrong, in which case someone will be by shortly to correct me.

OpaQue made a tutorial on how to setup a basic cron job a long time ago. You may wanna check it out. It's pretty interesting.

http://www.trap17.com/forums/cron-jobs-cro...anel-t6321.html

Thankyou both for your help and cooperation. I appreciate it