Terminal or SSH?

[rssched]

Hi, I am on paid hosting and I need to set up a cronjob or two. The problem I am having is that the cron feature in cPanel is lacking, aka there is no way to see or edit submitted cronjobs?

Also, I would like to be able to use some sort of SSH or terminal for commands such as:
cronjob -e

etc. How do i do this? also, what timezone is the server in so I can set it to go off at a specific hour? What is the command to run a PHP script? I was messing around with some PHP command but it doesnt seem to do anything. Thanks to anyone that can help!

 

[adamparkzer]

We have some talented programmers in the Programming Help section that can help you out:

http://forums.x10hosting.com/programming-help/

Maybe an account manager can move this thread for you, or possibly someone that knows about cron jobs can help you out here.

As for your question, I don't know anything advanced about cron jobs.

 

[rssched]

i know how to use the cronjobs, just not the specific command to run the php script (on my linux box i would run "links http://website.com/script.php" but i dont think that is the best way from cPanel.

my cron job needs to run during a range of hours like so:
*/1 00-01,17-23 * * * links http//...

 

[garrettroyce]

You're trying to set cron to load a webpage? Would wget work for your purposes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget

 

[rssched]

does x10hosting cPanel have wget? yes wget should work, similar to how links works, so if they have links that may work as well.

mainly i want to know how to run the terminal? is there a way to SSH into my site or something? this is getting annoying. on another hosting site i used in the past it would show the current cronjobs and let you remove edit them. where is this feature??

 

[garrettroyce]

CPanel is the only way to manage cron, as far as I know. If you are on paid, you can get terminal support enabled, I believe, if that's what you'd rather do. You should be using the paid support system from http://clients.x10hosting.com instead of the free support system, since you're a paying customer

 

[galaxyAbstractor]

What do you mean with "aka there is no way to see or edit submitted cronjobs?"? It should show all your crons, otherwise it is a bug, as it shows my crons for me when I go to the cron page.

If you do crontab->standard, then it should show all entries, and an empty entry at the bottom to add a new cron

 

[rssched]

What do you mean with "aka there is no way to see or edit submitted cronjobs?"? It should show all your crons, otherwise it is a bug, as it shows my crons for me when I go to the cron page.

If you do crontab->standard, then it should show all entries, and an empty entry at the bottom to add a new cron

nope, definately does not show cronjobs there! there is no empty space either. i just made a new cronjob to test and it is neither in the standard or advanced cron page.

 

[garrettroyce]

I'll escalate your issue in the free support system, but you really should be doing this through the paid support system since you paid for it