crontab – Tarik Billa

mysqldump & gzip commands to properly create a compressed file of a MySQL database using crontab

January 7, 2023 by Tarik

First the mysqldump command is executed and the output generated is redirected using the pipe. The pipe is sending the standard output into the gzip command as standard input. Following the filename.gz, is the output redirection operator (>) which is going to continue redirecting the data until the last filename, which is where the data … Read more

Using crontab to execute script every minute and another every 24 hours [closed]

September 28, 2022 by Tarik

every minute: * * * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/a.php every 24hours (every midnight): 0 0 * * * /path/to/php /var/www/html/reset.php See this reference for how crontab works: http://adminschoice.com/crontab-quick-reference, and this handy tool to build cron jobx: http://www.htmlbasix.com/crontab.shtml