I am trying to make the cron work on my linode.

Basically I installed a newletter software on my linode and it requires cron support.

The newsletter software giving me this command to run



After searching on the library I found this http://library.linode.com/linux-tools/utilities/cron

but if I run on my ssh it says



Do I need to install/enable cron from somewhere? If yes what is the command?

Thanks

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crontab -e

will create a new crontab

crontab -e -u username

will create a new crontab for username

man crontab

will provide more help

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Hi obs,

Do I need to create a new cron tab then paste this command?



Couple of questions

1. Is crontabs are domain specific? (I installed the newsletter software on subdomain)

2. Do I really need to create a new user to operate cron jobs?

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Have another read of http://library.linode.com/linux-tools/utilities/cron it has some examples of how to schedule crons.

In your case you probably want it running under the www-data or apache2 user (whatever user php runs as) so you'd do crontab -e -u www-data
Then add

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/php -f /home/user/public/example.com/public_html/software-directory/cron.php

To run the command every day at midnight

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I found this site to be very useful for less experienced folks to write crontabs: http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui

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