Further Cron

[ChilliBoy]

Hi,

Just been reading the below thread on Cron and wanted to make sure I was about to do things correctly be causing potential havock with the server.

I have a number of php scripts which fetch new data every 2 hours and write to a cache file. Problem is that the occasional user (1 every 2 hours) get a very slow page load.

Hence I would like to automatically load the page every 2 hours behind the scenes to prevent this - hence Cron.

Hostrocket are my host and the have a Cron Tab control in the Cont Panel.

To simple call the pages with the scripts in to execute is this the correct command:

php /www/username/directory/file.php > /dev/null

?

How do I set my time settings to work every two hours ?

0 * * * * - This I believe is every hour - what is correct for every 2 hours?


Thanks for the help.

[Son Nguyen]

I know it doesn't look nice, but I don't know of a better way at the moment
0 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * *

[petesmc]

Hi,

If you are on the new servers (not the alabanza ones) then this is your crontab:

0 */2 * * * php /home/username/public_html/directory/file.php > /dev/null

-Peter McNulty

[ChilliBoy]

Cheers for the info - yes I'm on the VDI ones.

Is there a problem with running more than 13 cron jobs on these servers - I have noticed that when I try and put more in through the Cron Tab Page that they are not added - I need to run 20.

Cheers

[petesmc]

Hi,

There should be a problem, can you please send in a trouble ticket and we'll submit it to cpanel if we can't find the problem.

Also to temporairily fix it read this:

http://www.codingclick.com/article.php/aid/17

Sorry for the self advertising....

[ChilliBoy]

Will do - cheers!