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Crontab help
Topic Started: Jun 5 2005, 09:32 AM (288 Views)
kingy Jun 5 2005, 09:32 AM Post #1
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 I have been reading about something called Crontab, i have it on my host, and i was wondering what code it can launch.

The only examples i have seen have been cgi, but i was wondering if it could run a php script to increment a database value every hour.

So basically...

I have a code, that, when run, adds 1 to a value i have stored in my database. I want this value to increment once every hour, so is it possible for crontab to automate this for me?

If not, no worries, i am a curious person

Kingy

also, can you use crontab with phpdev? if so, how
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Seth Jun 5 2005, 10:07 AM Post #2
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 cron is a Linux program. Just type man crontab to see how to use it.
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Rory Jun 5 2005, 10:09 AM Post #3
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 If you read through this topic, there are examples and some links about how to use a cron job to do what you want :)

http://support.invisionfree.com/index.php?showtopic=141247
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kingy Jun 5 2005, 03:02 PM Post #4
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 so cron won't run on a windows server?

thansk for the link btw, i know how to run one on my host now...thanks
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Dennis Jun 6 2005, 07:32 PM Post #5
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 Cron is Unix only. ;)

The closest thing that windows would mhave would be the Task Scheduler, which is of course inferior. :)
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kingy Jun 7 2005, 03:55 AM Post #6
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 I run apache on my pc, so it will have to be Task Schedular till i get my new pc next month. gonna dual boot it

thanks everybody
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kingy Jun 7 2005, 12:52 PM Post #7
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 Sorry for the double post, but it has been ages since that post and this is not a bump.


Can the task schedular run a program hosted somewhere else? for example i am running a website on a free host until i can get it hosted on my machine. I want to test the task schedular thing, but it only seems to be able to run stuff on my machine? so can i make it run a .php page hosted elsewhere?

Thanks

Kingy
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Seth Jun 7 2005, 01:04 PM Post #8
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 You could maybe get it to load a web browser pointed at that page. That'd be about it. Task Scheduler is pretty ghetto.
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ultra mc Jun 7 2005, 04:26 PM Post #9
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 ^^does not understand anything of the above^^lol
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kingy Jun 8 2005, 05:24 PM Post #10
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 yeah task schedular is awful...

Waiting for my nice shiny new pc...then i can use cron
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