Howto guide to cronjob server

guldhammer · 01-25-2008, 03:51 AM

Hi.

Can anyone help me get a guide to setup a cronjob server on my webserver?

I want it to be possible for users to run a cronjob on my webserver

Regards
Guldhammer

bogdraggon · 01-25-2008, 05:47 PM

What distro are you using?

cron is usually installed by default.
open a terminal and type crontab -l (lowercase L)

Also try entering man cron into a terminal

guldhammer · 01-26-2008, 04:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bogdraggon

What distro are you using?

cron is usually installed by default.
open a terminal and type crontab -l (lowercase L)

Also try entering man cron into a terminal

Ohh, i'm using Debian 4.0

lensman3 · 01-26-2008, 10:38 PM

Anybody can edit and a cron job to run under their user privileges. Just enter "crontab -e". After the job is finished exist and save. Remember that the default editor is "vi", a very intimidating editor. Only root can add super user cron jobs. I think the "EDITOR" environment variable can be changed to point to your favorite editor.

crond is always installed. Its granularity is every one minute it will execute. The options on the time are varied. I have one that run every minute to make sure that my network interface to the Internet is always running (I use comcast.net). If the link is down it tries to reestablish the connection. To start the Ethernet cards is a superuser privilege, so only root can do that.

I don't know if there is gui interface for the cron daemon out there. There probably is, everything else has been gui'ized.

guldhammer · 01-28-2008, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lensman3

Anybody can edit and a cron job to run under their user privileges. Just enter "crontab -e". After the job is finished exist and save. Remember that the default editor is "vi", a very intimidating editor. Only root can add super user cron jobs. I think the "EDITOR" environment variable can be changed to point to your favorite editor.

crond is always installed. Its granularity is every one minute it will execute. The options on the time are varied. I have one that run every minute to make sure that my network interface to the Internet is always running (I use comcast.net). If the link is down it tries to reestablish the connection. To start the Ethernet cards is a superuser privilege, so only root can do that.

I don't know if there is gui interface for the cron daemon out there. There probably is, everything else has been gui'ized.

Oh no no you are misunderstanding,
i will make a cronjob service that my webhotel users can use,
with webinterface.

lensman3 · 01-28-2008, 09:38 PM

Sorry I have no clue what you would even use this for!!!!

Crons wake you up??? Not a clue on my part.

01-25-2008, 03:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
guldhammer Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 19 OS: Debian 4.0	Howto guide to cronjob server Hi. Can anyone help me get a guide to setup a cronjob server on my webserver? I want it to be possible for users to run a cronjob on my webserver Regards Guldhammer

01-25-2008, 05:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
bogdraggon Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 43 OS: linux	Re: Howto guide to cronjob server What distro are you using? cron is usually installed by default. open a terminal and type crontab -l (lowercase L) Also try entering man cron into a terminal

01-26-2008, 10:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 470 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: Howto guide to cronjob server Anybody can edit and a cron job to run under their user privileges. Just enter "crontab -e". After the job is finished exist and save. Remember that the default editor is "vi", a very intimidating editor. Only root can add super user cron jobs. I think the "EDITOR" environment variable can be changed to point to your favorite editor. crond is always installed. Its granularity is every one minute it will execute. The options on the time are varied. I have one that run every minute to make sure that my network interface to the Internet is always running (I use comcast.net). If the link is down it tries to reestablish the connection. To start the Ethernet cards is a superuser privilege, so only root can do that. I don't know if there is gui interface for the cron daemon out there. There probably is, everything else has been gui'ized.

01-28-2008, 09:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
lensman3 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Littleton, Colorado USA Posts: 470 OS: xp 64 sp2 Fedora Core 8 (vmware xp core 8 x32) Minix	Re: Howto guide to cronjob server Sorry I have no clue what you would even use this for!!!! Crons wake you up??? Not a clue on my part.