cPanel offers you a facility for setting up cron jobs for your hosting account which will ease your hosting account management. Using cron jobs you can easily setup all wanted scripts to run/executed automatically within time frame you specify for them. One cron is set it will do it’s task on regular basis without manual intervention.For eg : You can set cron job using which you can automatically take backup of databases onto a server located at different place.
There are two different modes for adding corn jobs :
Standard and Advances mode.
Standard – In this mode you have range of pre-set options which you can use for your hostign account. It;s simplest method for setting cron jobs.
Advanced mode : It uses normal Unix based cron options setting. it’s somewhat difficult to setup for a user who is not much aware of using Unix. It’s only recommended for one who has Linux background.
How to add/edit/modify a cron job :
# Login to your cpanel.
# Click on cron jobs icon.
# Select mode: You can opt for standard by clicking Standard button.
# Enter e-mail ID where you want to get results after execuation of cron jobs.
# Enter your required command which you want to run under your cron job setting.
# Choose proper opt from the available list.
# Finally save your cron setting. Thus your new/edited cron job is ready for workout.
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This post was written by on March 29, 2008
