Cron Jobs

Hi,
what are cron jobs and how to make use of this feature of Cpanel..
i got there two options, standard and advance but i donot know for what purpose this feature is??

 

I think you mean CRON jobs . You use them to run scripts at set time intervals. e.g. you could have a script to back up a database on a daily basis.

 

A "corn job" is something you might get from a Scanky-Hooker.

A "cron job" is scheduled event that you can make happen repeatedly.

Example, say you don't want to kick out emails every time you have a new member sign up to your site. You can store the outgoing mails in a database table, and every 15 mins have a 'cron job' execute a command line that generates the email and flushes the email que.

hth,

tom

 

That is classic.

 

So you're saying a corn job is not something that you can make happen repeatedly?

 

From his previous explaination it probably depends on how much cash you have on hand...

 

Thanks TommyD;

and @chiefshuddle, surely you are right that to repeat a CORN job, investment is required..