Crontab's

[Emagine]

@bro

I use one this way to update an RSS feed every hour.

For those who haven’t used them; there is an option for ‘Crontab’ in the hsphere linux account CP. This takes you to a screen where you can set up commands to run at particular intervals.
I use wget here to run an asp page on one of my domains that generates the new feed. Be sure to use the --delete-after option, or you’ll end up with thousands of copies of the file in the account (as I found out when it filled up…)

Unfortunately, I need to use up yet another of my hsphere user accounts just for this one command, as all my domains require Windows accounts.

im wanting to query a url every so often for a feature i want to do, im thinking of the only way is the above, aving a unix/linux account and using ‘Crontab’ to query a url on a windows Account.

i read the above from another thread, ive created an unix account allowing Crontab’s but when viewing the Control panel i don’t see anything to do with them , can anyone point me in the right direction or let me know whats up.

cheers

[Stephen]

It is in the “ftp” section of the CP, yes it is odd, but thats where it is

[Emagine]

thanks stephen, just found it. cheers