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wormracer08 replied on Aug 26, 2011 at 2:13 pm Permalink Best Answer Reply

It allows you to automate re-indexing, updating the sitemap and polling the email posts instead of manually doing it from the dashboard.

I use a cron job to do it as it's simple to set up.

cPanel makes it very easy to set up a cron just pick how often you want the job to run and use wget to visit the url.

Example:

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget -t 1 -q -O -http://yourdomain.com/tools/required/jobs?auth=YourToken

That will run your job once every day at midnight and send an email if there's an error. Your path may be different to wget but that's the basic command.

mirjamk replied on Aug 27, 2011 at 3:39 am Permalink Reply

Hi Wormracer08,

Thank you for your clear explanation.

I don't use cPanel but Plesk and I'm only allowed to view the scheduled tasks. I will ask my host to set this up for me.

But it is clear now what it means.

Regards,
Mirjam

wormracer08 replied on Aug 27, 2011 at 11:18 am Permalink Reply

Awesome, glad I could help.

chrison999 replied on May 3, 2012 at 5:57 pm Permalink Reply

In case it happens to someone else, the command line you gave for crontab didn't work for me. I kept getting a "missing URL" error message. Removing the "-O" switch and changing "-http://" to "http://" fixed it. In other words, this is what worked on my system:

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget -t 1 -q  http://mydomain.com/tools/required/jobs?auth=MyToken

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, though! I had been flailing on that question for awhile!

Regards,

Chris

roggy replied on Mar 20, 2013 at 4:33 am Permalink Reply

Your modification did the trick in my case .. on cPanel.


Thnx and regards!

tommyh replied on Dec 15, 2011 at 9:20 am Permalink Reply

Hi,

I am trying to automate this process and when the cron runs I get this error for this.

/bin/sh:http://tommyhouse.com/main/index.php/tools/required/jobs?auth=b215b... No such file or directory

In C5 it tells me to run this: http;//tommyhouse.com//main/index.php/tools/required/jobs?auth=b215bf63b9bc65022daed43ed9844110

What am I missing or need to do to make this work right?

Any help would be appreciated.

Mnkras replied on Dec 15, 2011 at 10:13 am Permalink Reply

The jobs are running successfully
http://tommyhouse.com/main/index.php/tools/required/jobs?auth=b215b...

try using something like

curl http://tommyhouse.com/main/index.php/tools/required/jobs?auth=b215bf63b9bc65022daed43ed9844110&debug=1

tommyh replied on Dec 15, 2011 at 10:48 am Permalink Reply

Thanks a bunch. I will give it a shot and see what happens. :)

stephanebeck replied on Mar 25, 2012 at 10:33 pm Permalink Reply

Is there a way to automate the "Generate Sitemap File" job ONLY?
And is it also possible to automate a DB backup?
Thanks!

chrison999 replied on May 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm Permalink Reply

I, too, would appreciate hearing how to do an automatic DB backup via a cron job. Right now, I'm doing manual backups every once in awhile (i.e. whenever I remember), but it would be great to be more frequent/consistent.

Thanks!

Regards,

Chris

skram replied on Sep 21, 2012 at 1:19 pm Permalink Reply

I'm also looking to run a process nightly (a custom Job I've written and installed) but can't figure out how to run just this ONE job nightly.

JohntheFish replied on Sep 21, 2012 at 3:01 pm Permalink Reply

If the jobs (ie site) are small enough to run in a web request, try
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/nontab-scheduler/...

(but it doesn't run backup)