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jamieonkeys · Sep 3, 2020

Running PHP and shell scripts as cron jobs

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Cron jobs are commands or scripts that run on a web server automatically at set intervals (every 15 minutes, once a day, twice a month etc.) My site wrestle.buzz uses a few of them (including to run an API call and clear the cache). I thought I’d document the process of setting one up. Primer You can add cron jobs directly in a file called crontab ( here’s an example doing that on Ubuntu ), or via…

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