Writing a Cron Job

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    How do I write a cron job that...

    Gzips my logs each night?
     
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    soniqhost.com Notable Member

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    Are you using Cpanel?
     
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    From shell, type this to open the crontab:

    crontab -e
    then place a line like this:

    0 0 * * * * tar -cvfz /pathofyourlogs /root/logfiles.tar.gz

    Change pathofyourlogs to the path of your log files and this will save the log files in the root floder with logfiles.tar.gz named.
     
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    How would I add into that to ALSO

    restart the server every hour between the times of 7:00AM to 3:pM?
     
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    If this is the server
    0 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 * * * * init 6
    OR
    0 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 * * * * command restart
    OR
    0 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 * * * * <command>

    :cool:
     
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