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Adding cron jobs from crontab on Linux for drupal site using lynx and wget and curl commands

Submitted by inder on Sun, 03/14/2010 - 12:10pm

Cron executes commands at specified intervals. These commands are called "cron jobs." Cron is available on Unix, Linux and Mac servers. Windows servers use a Scheduled Task to execute commands.

The cron command

To edit a crontab through the command line, type:

crontab -e

In the following example, the crontab command shown below will activate the cron tasks automatically on the hour:

0 * * * * wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.indersingh.com/cron.php

# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31)

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