How to Set up Cron Job to run once in a week?
I want to executed my page every week using cron job.how i can achieve that?
Note : Page is already created.
1 Answer
Login via ssh and open the crontab file for your user
$ crontab -e
The following special string should do it
@weekly /path/to/file/
Save the file and exit.
This translates to "0 0 * * 0 /path/to/file" or midnight, every Sunday, the said file (script) will be executed. There will be more information in your crontab if you'd like to change the day of the week.
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Hello,
what will be the command if i need to execute any script daily?thanks in advance
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Do you have cPanel? If so there's a cronjob option at the bottom
No..We don't have cPanel.
@karthees51 - you may need to place a script in one of the /etc/cron.XXX directories to do a wget or curl command which grabs your specific web page. Look in one of those directories for a sample script to use as your template.
If you don’t know how to setup cronjob, a third party webcron may be a good option for you. easyCron provides a free plan at https://www.easycron.com/user/register/plan/1.