CRON

[BenRussell]

This isnt really CGI related, but I was wondering how I could set a cron job on my server to execute every day and execute a script at /home/sites/home/web/Script.cgi

Thanks - Ben Russell
- President of Intracor Technologies (

http://intracor.hypermart.net)

 

[goBoating]

on a Solaris box,

prompt> crontab -e <return>

will put you in a 'vi' style editor. Add a line like,

15 3 * * * /home/site/home/web/Script.cgi

and save it.

The parameters and their ranges are:
minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week
| | | | |
0-60 0-24 1-31 1-12 0=Sunday

So, the above entry would run at 3:15am every morning.

Do not edit your crontab directly with 'vi' or another editor.
It is just a text file, but it MUST be edited using
crontab -e.

There may be variations depending upon you OS.

HTH


keep the rudder amid ship and beware the odd typo