Cron Jobs, Quick Question

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by gobbly2100, Apr 16, 2008.

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    Hey,

    In my cPanel where I can set up cron jobs, what does the star sign represent? (*)

    I am trying to set up a cron job that executes daily at 9am

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    Is this correct for what I want to do?
     
    gobbly2100, Apr 16, 2008 IP
  2. milesbparty

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    The "*" means every value possible for the setting. So "script.php" will run at 9:00 am every day of the week, every month, on every weekday. Basically the script will run every day at 09:00, no matter what.
     
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    gobbly2100 Banned

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    Oh I get it now, thank you for the reply!
     
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    You may also like to know that you can do fractions of *

    e.g. To run a script every 15 minutes rather than every minute you can use:
    */15 * * * * GET http://www.myscript.com/script.php
     
    evilgreenmonkey, Apr 18, 2008 IP