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Set cron with password?

Gunjan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:43:14 +0000

Most of the scripts cron run from admin section and we are settings cron without admin section login details due to that cron never be run.We can set the cron with the admin section login details.Mostly we prefer curl to set the authentication cron because most of the servers blocking wget/lynx command.Simply we can set the cron with the following syntax.

/usr/bin/curl http://support:1q2w3e@www.yourdomain.com/test_script/cron.php

If you don’t want to receive cron result in E-mail then refer following sytax

/usr/bin/curl http://support:1q2w3e@www.yourdomain.com/test_script/cron.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Cron to unzip the .zip file?

Gunjan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:21:32 +0000

You can set the cron to unzip the .zip file. Following will be your cron setting

For example
* * * * * server path of unzip (usr/bin/unzip) /home/username/public_hrml/ path of the file.

You can check the path fir zip by using following command

root@admin[]#which zip
/usr/bin/zip

Backup of mysql database using cron job.

Gunjan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:30:58 +0000

To generate the backup of mysql database using cron job refer following three format as per your requirement.

1) Cron job to generate database backup in .sql format

* * * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u databaseusername databasename -ppassword > /path of database database.sql

2) Cronjob to compress database backup in .bz2 format

* * * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u datbaseusername databasename -pdatbasepassword|bzip2 -c > /path of database database.bz2

3) Cronjob to compress database backup in .gz format

* * * * * /usr/bin/mysqldump -u databaseusername databasename -ppassword|gzip > /path of databasedatabase.gz

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Set cron with the login details?

Gunjan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:51:34 +0000

Most of the corn is set and run from admin section of the script like Drupal etc.

You can set the cron with the password in following format.

/usr/bin/curl http://support:password@www.yourdomainname.com/cron.php

In above format 1st you need to check the path for curl on your server by using “which curl” command and then use admin section login respectively to run cron.