cron

I am running a cgi script in my cgi-bin on my server. there is a link in the admin section of the script, that updates the pages that the script generates for surfers. i need to know how to setup a cron item that will basically make it so i don't have to login to the script with the admin user...

Hi, I did a script for cpanel in php but I want to run it via cron and not via http If you put www.site.com/script.php you see the script. Is there a way to block it via htaccess ? and run it in localhost mode?? Thanks

Hi One of our client has requested cron job facility with it's cpanel ID. I would like to know how much is it safe to allow users to run their cron jobs. At what level is the user restricted from causing any harm to the server Thanks and regards Lawrence

Hello, Can anyone tell me if it's possible to create a cron job that backups one site (just one not the whole server) to the home directory of the account. This may sound strange but i need it to be accessible, via FTP, so a system i have in my office can go there and download it to my...

I swear I've read something in the past, but I can't find it now - does it mess up cPanel's handling of cron jobs if you manually edit the crontab? I have crons working on all my sites except one - when I add the commands in cpanel, they just get wiped out. I'm starting to suspect that someone...

WHM 11.2.0 cPanel 11.6.0-R15076 CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0 We haven't had an issue with this but cron jobs aren't being saved inside of cPanel. I noticed several threads from a long time ago and it is hard to believe this has been going on for several months without a fix from...

I have a problem, upcp and cpbackup script every day send a mail to root mail, ok, but why I don't receive this messages in a specified mail box? and in others mail box it works? second question: don't receive the logwatch mail every day thanks

Cron php error: Solved Hi guys i have a problem, i cant run a cron job with php, i try with: -php -q -f /home/my_user/public_html/hi.php -php -q -f /home/my_user.com/public_html/hi.php -php -q /home/my_user/public_html/hi.php -php -q /home/my_user.com/public_html/hi.php -php...

Hi I just set a new VPS acct and logging into my WHM I see no cron icon. I click the cpanel icon that is in my WHM page and again there is no cron icon. Now I havent set up any accts (domains) with WHM yet, as it was my first venture into it just a few minutes ago. I was told my by my...

Is there a cpanel program that enables running a script one time only, but not on a regular basis like cron job?

I have been getting this error for a while now, just kept brishing it off, but I must finally ask you guys what you know about. I couldnt find anything here about, but here it goes. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error accessing /var/log/httpd: No such file or directory error...

I was messing with something and now I can't set cron for upcp and cpbackup. I am kind of new to this and am not sure what I did. I get these errors in my log file: bad command errors in crontab file, can't install. "/scripts/.crontab":1: bad command errors in crontab file, can't...

i have had this problem before and i dont know what i did to fix it but when i tried to add a cron job and when i did it deleted all my other crons and didnt even add itself and now when i try to add a new one it says crons updated and there is no crons on the page what am i doing wrong...

Hello, 1- How can disable cron job for users? 2- How can see crated cron job by users?

Every time i try to create a cron using Cpanel, i save it, it then says "cron updated!", but the cron is not saved. I recently updated my cpanel installation through whm, could this have caused this and, if so, what is the solution to this problem? Thanks.

Hi Is there any way to prevent users from setting up cron jobs? IE prevent them setting up crons that run every minute, hour, etc. Cheers

Hi, I just realised that my cron jobs have stopped working - on two completely seperate servers. Server 1 is running: WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R118 CentOS 4.5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0 Server 2 is running: WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.9.0-R139 CentOS 4.5 i686 - WHM X v3.1.0 So...

Your cPanel thingy needs to have the time of day indicated on the CRON jobs screen. It does little good to specify that you want a job to run in two minutes when it turns out the job won't run for an hour or 23 hours. Don't you think that is a little silly? By putting the server time on...

Hello, Today accidentally while installing a new cron, I've typed fast crontab -r instead of crontab -e. I dont know who was the idiot who had the nice idea to have the -r and -e for delete edit, one key near the other. I would like to know if anybody can give me a copy of a fresh cPanel...

Hi, I want my program to run like this: a)The webmaster adds a PHP script to cron through the CPanel GUI to run at a fixed time, say 10:00 AM every morning. b)When the script is run by cron, it reads an XML file which was added in by the webmaster and contains a list of programs (other...