Running Cron Tasks on Heroku

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

Variables in crontab?

In Vixie cron, which is possibly the most common, you can do this almost exactly like a shell script. VARIABLE=value PATH=/bin:/path/to/doathing 0 0 * * * doathing.sh $VARIABLE The man page says: An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or a cron command. An environment setting is of the form, … Read more

Run CRON job everyday at specific time

Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. Linux Crontab Format MIN HOUR DOM MON DOW CMD Example::Scheduling a Job For a Specific Time The basic usage of cron is to execute a job in a specific time as shown below. … Read more

Cron job every three days

Run it every three days… 0 0 */3 * * How about that? If you want it to run on specific days of the month, like the 1st, 4th, 7th, etc… then you can just have a conditional in your script that checks for the current day of the month. if (((date(‘j’) – 1) % … Read more

how to set cronjob for 2 days? [closed]

From here: Cron also supports ‘step’ values. A value of */2 in the dom field would mean the command runs every two days and likewise, */5 in the hours field would mean the command runs every 5 hours. e.g. * 12 10-16/2 * * root backup.sh is the same as: * 12 10,12,14,16 * * … Read more