Cron job help please

[trafix]

I have an emsim admin panel (yuk) I cant find any option for setting up cron jobs :(

My host told me this I could use SSH to add cron jobs, is this corrent? or should i just use a fake cron job as suggested in the signature hack??

Thanks in advance ....

[Erwin]

SSH into your server as root.

Then you have options here:

1) You can set up a cronjob by typing this in the command line:

crontab -e

2) OR, you can set up a cronjob by adding entries to the cron.daily or cron.weekly directories - in the command line do this:

cd /etc/cron.daily
pico yourcronjob

And type this at the top:

#!/bin/sh

Then list out your commands.

CTRL-O to save, then CTRL-X. Then chmod the file to 755.
You have made a bash script to run as a cron job.

You can edit /etc/crontab to change the times you want cron.daily to run. Do the same in the cron.weekly or cron.monthly subdirectories if you wish.

[trafix]

Thanks Erwin :) a great help, I wish i had time to impliment it :( I need to use it to auto warn and delete expired listings, so i will get there soon