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how do I schedule a cron job

Posted on January 22, 2020
irv

By irv

using Spree e-commerce platform on Digital Ocean droplet.

need to schedule item sync with backend database every 10 minutes.

used to work fine, need to get running again.



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Hello,

In order to set up a Cron job you could follow the steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-cron-to-automate-tasks-on-a-vps

If you are getting any errors, feel free to share them here so that I could try to advise you further.

Regards, Bobby

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