how to set Cron Job on Gentoo webmin panel?

[ujwalarali85]

I some script located in following file

http://myserver/imp/dothis.php

I want to set cron job so that this file will run daily.
At Webmin I have menu 'Scheduled Cron Jobs' and create new cron job option.
But I don't have idea how to set command for cron job and how to set time or day for it.
I am new this Cron set up.Please can you explain me with example.

Thank you very much.

[dlite922]

are you familiar with the command line?

A cron job is just a command that you execute from the command line shell.

For example, to delete everything from the temp folder it could be something like

rm -rf /tmp/*

To make it run everyday

* 1 * * * rm -rvf /tmp/* >> /logs/tempDelete.log

It means for every minute of every 1 day of every month and year (any weekday) remove recursively by force every file in the /tmp folder then put the verbose output into a file called tempDelete.log in the logs folder.





Dan

[Dormilich]

@dlite922
this line goes into /etc/crontab

[Plater]

And the ">>" is append and not overwrite like ">"

[numberwhun]

And when you run the /etc/crontab command, you do it as such:

/etc/crontab -e
 

I would also highly suggest that you read "man crontab" so that you are better informed about each field. Crontab is easy to use and you can do a lot with it, but you just need to read, learn and practice with it.

Regards,

Jeff