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Cron Jobs? - What are these supposed to do?

xXsyreXx
Nov 30 2005, 01:39 AM
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 biggrin.gif

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jlhaslip
Nov 30 2005, 02:41 AM
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.

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truefusion
Nov 30 2005, 04:16 AM
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

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xXsyreXx
Dec 1 2005, 01:05 AM
Thankyou both for your help and cooperation. I appreciate it biggrin.gif

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