You need to also install cygrunsrv so you can set cron up as a windows service, then run cron-config. If you want the cron jobs to send email of any output you’ll also need to install either exim or ssmtp (before running cron-config.) See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cron-*.README for more details. Regarding programs without a .exe extension, they … Read more
This is how I added a cron job to Elastic Beanstalk: Create a folder at the root of your application called .ebextensions if it doesn’t exist already. Then create a config file inside the .ebextensions folder. I’ll use example.config for illustration purposes. Then add this to example.config container_commands: 01_some_cron_job: command: “cat .ebextensions/some_cron_job.txt > /etc/cron.d/some_cron_job && … Read more
As seen in comments, the problem is that you are not defining what program should be used to execute the script. Take into account that a cronjob is executed in a tiny environment; there, not much can be assumed. This is why we define full paths, etc. So you need to say something like: 1 … Read more
every minute: * * * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/a.php every 24hours (every midnight): 0 0 * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/reset.php See this reference for how crontab works: http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference, and this handy tool to build cron jobx: http://www.htmlbasix.com/crontab.shtml
crontab command usage usage: crontab [-u user] file crontab [-u user] [ -e | -l | -r ] (default operation is replace, per 1003.2) -e (edit user’s crontab) -l (list user’s crontab) -r (delete user’s crontab) -i (prompt before deleting user’s crontab) So, $output = shell_exec(‘crontab -l’); file_put_contents(‘/tmp/crontab.txt’, $output.’* * * * * NEW_CRON’.PHP_EOL); echo … Read more
You can define environment variables in the crontab itself when running crontab -e from the command line. LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 LC_ALL=nb_NO.UTF-8 # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * sleep 5s && echo “yo” This feature is only available to certain implementations of cron. Ubuntu and Debian currently use vixie-cron which allows these … Read more