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CronJob and Example
Introduction
The cron command line is a job scheduler utility on Unix-like OS, such as Linux. You may use cron to setup a service to run on fixed time periodically, and it called CronJob. It can be setup from minutes to hours to daily, weekly, monthly, or a custom interval.
Examples
Executing the script using PHP from Crontab
The following script executes the PHP script every 10 minutes.
*/10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/username/domains/domain.com/public_html/pathtoscript/script.php > /dev/null 2>&1
Executing the script using wget
The script below calls the URL of the script using wget every 5 minutes.
*/5 * * * * /home/username/wget --output-document=/dev/null http://domain.com/pathtoscript/script.php > /dev/null 2>&1
Running the script using cURL
The following script executes the PHP script by calling the URL using CURL every 5 minutes.
*/5 * * * * /home/username/curl –output-document=/dev/null http://domain.com/pathtoscript/script.php > /dev/null 2>&1
For more information regarding CronJob timings, crontab.guru is an excellent resource for checking cron schedule expressions.
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