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Posted: **Tue May 16, 2006 10:33 pm**

Sorry to sound stupid, but what are Cron Jobs?

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2006 3:45 am**

Cron jobs are some jobs that you wish the server to execute automatically at a specified interval. You can do this on you your scripts, if required, by using cpanel's built in cronjob handler.

Posted: **Wed May 17, 2006 12:28 pm**

Thx I learnd something from both of you I never even knew aboute these. hehe

Posted: **Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:32 pm**

is it the same thing like in Linux?

Posted: **Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:30 pm**

jtcandra wrote:is it the same thing like in Linux?

yes, it is the same thing, but cPanel has better GUI

but basically it's the same

Posted: **Mon Nov 13, 2006 11:20 am**

how can i get more details ?
Is there anyone using these jobs??

Posted: **Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:58 am**

Its basically setting a schedule for your script or what ever you are doing to run. So say you have a shop and it gets 5 posters in every 24 hours. They are always the same poster so, you want it automatically inserted into your database. Thats where cron jobs come in. You cen set a cronjob to run a php script every day at midnight. The php script will insert 5 new posters into the database. Cron jobs just set a time at which you want a script or whatever to run. I use cron jobs for my game, to make it update scores etc.

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:57 am**

Can I use some method to backup my database of forum by using Cron Jobs???

Posted: **Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:36 am**

it depends the type of your database

Posted: **Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:05 am**

so what database would it work on