Sunday 19 February 2012

How to install cron without shell editor

How to install cron without shell editor

Let’s say you don’t have an editor setup to work with crontab on a chroot server and you want to install a cron job.
What you have to do is the following:
$ contab -l
This will print currently installed cron jobs
$ crontab -l > cron.txt
Put contents of the crontab in a file. You can edit this file using and ftp/scp program or by other simple editor available on the server.
When you are ready install the cron…
$ crontab < cron.txt
If no errors are printed, cron job is installed successfully.

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4 comments:

  1. * * * * * echo "Cron Worked $(date)" >> /tmp/cronworked.txt

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  2. it works:

    crontab -e
    * * * * * php ~/Desktop/Cron.php >> ~/cronlog.txt

    :wq

    ~/Desktop/Cron.php

    #!/usr/bin/env php

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  3. #!/usr/bin/env php
    <?php


    echo "i am working from php ";

    echo time();
    ?>

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