It turned out that I could not use the @Scheduled annotation, but I implemented a work-around. In the JavaDoc of the SchedulingConfigurer it is stated that: [SchedulingConfigurer is] Typically used for setting a specific TaskScheduler bean to be used when executing scheduled tasks or for registering scheduled tasks in a programmatic fashion as opposed to … Read more
If you’re still looking for something robust even in the far future, try https://stackoverflow.com/a/13938099/1601531, where I suggest the use of February 31st in crontab entries which are never intended to execute. 0 0 5 31 2 ?
Just use launchd. It is a very powerful launcher system and meanwhile it is the standard launcher system for Mac OS X (current OS X version wouldn’t even boot without it). For those who are not familiar with launchd (or with OS X in general), it is like a crossbreed between init, cron, at, SysVinit … Read more
In case anyone else is interested, In the new CakePHP 2.0.5, you will an index.php in webroot folder: Copy this file and name it cron_dispatcher.php, and place it into the same directory (webroot) You will find this code at the very bottom: $Dispatcher = new Dispatcher(); $Dispatcher->dispatch(new CakeRequest(), new CakeResponse(array(‘charset’ => Configure::read(‘App.encoding’)))); change the bottom … Read more
You can use an online cron service to essentially pretend like you have cron access. Create php file with contents you would like executed Free Cron Online Website Set up your free online cron to execute that file every x minutes.
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “run my own cron tasks manually”. For cron specifically, you need access to crontab, which they can control, as they’re their servers. If you have another way of doing it, it would probably be fine, but bear in mind that your app is not tied to a … Read more
Instead of executing the whole ~/.profile what I’d do is move the variables that must be shared between your cron jobs and the account that has the profile, then I’d source these both in ~/.profile and in the cron job. The last attempt you show in the question is not properly formatted. The user id … Read more
Going back a step further from Vixie cron, the “wday OR mday” logic was present in System V cron, but not System III or anything earlier. Before Paul Vixie wrote his cron replacement, BSD cron was like the SysIII-and-earlier cron. All 5 fields were ANDed. The post-4.4 BSDs adopted Vixie cron, making themselves more SysV-like. … Read more
if (php_sapi_name() == ‘cli’) { if (isset($_SERVER[‘TERM’])) { echo “The script was run from a manual invocation on a shell”; } else { echo “The script was run from the crontab entry”; } } else { echo “The script was run from a webserver, or something else”; }