Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week to free up disk space.
Here are few useful commands for newbie cPanel users, this will help you run scripts at a specific time. Just choose a timing in cPanel “Add new Corn Job” settings and enter following commands in command inputbox, where XXXX is your scripts name, hope it helps.
Run a PHP script at specific time :
[cc lang=”text”]
php /home1/user8/public_html/XXXX.php
[/cc]
Set a timing to delete your apache error_log files.
[cc lang=”text”]
rm /home1/user8/public_html/error_log
[/cc]
Here are few useful commands for newbie cPanel users, this will help you run scripts at a specific time. Just choose a timing in cPanel “Add new Corn Job” settings and enter following commands in command inputbox, where XXXX is your scripts name, hope it helps.
