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  • I've had bad experience with handing "delete file" powers to an automatic script before, so I'll disclaim any warranty ( "TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW" as the GPL shouts), but it's pretty straightforward, and works for me: I have it in a cronjob.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Although mine is not really a re-design, it's just a cronjob with wget and sed. papascott

    I'm feeling lucky - Anil Dash 2004

  • * Improved the cron logfile: Different logfiles for each profile, listing results from only the last cronjob.

    KDE-Apps.org Content 2010

  • I think that my server has an issue with passing a parameter through the cronjob command line.

    phpBB.com andrius757 2010

  • Now put those two commands into a script file somewhere, and create a cronjob.

    Fedora People rich 2010

  • To minimize database access, aggregation is done via a Django command that you can call periodically (as a cronjob).

    Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

  • The cronjob will issue a HTTP request (GET) using fetch against my homepage and save the result to my index. html.

    Planet PHP 2010

  • Therefore, everything after cronjob. php just messed it up.

    phpBB.com andrius757 2010

  • Currently, this cronjob is executed every 10 minutes so I can fiddle with the design and deploy a change more easily, but I could run that cronjob every hour or every few hours as well.

    Planet PHP 2010

  • I had to change the ownership of the existing indexes, the scripts themselves, and move the cronjob to the new s-blog user. cross-user dependencies

    Steve Kemp's Blog 2010

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  • word comes from the 'cron' command in Unix systems. Cron is a scheduling tool, typically so you can perform a backup or tasks when the server is not being used for business use.   'cron' gets it's name from chronos , or time.

    August 13, 2016