{"id":817,"date":"2017-07-12T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2024-10-22T10:43:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:43:46","slug":"how-to-setup-a-cron-job-on-webmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/how-to-setup-a-cron-job-on-webmin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Setup a Cron Job on Webmin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRON JOB<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cron job is the best way to automate various daily, weekly or even monthly tasks.In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up a cronjob on a server which runs Webmin.<\/p>\n

Accessing Cron Job Configuration Section in Webmin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Step1<\/strong>: Login to your webmin admin panel.You can use by typing https:\/\/your-vps-ip-address:10000<\/p>\n

Step2<\/strong>:Choose Webmin between two options at the top of the sidebar.<\/p>\n

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Step3<\/strong>:Click System tab in the left sidebar of webmin and navigate to scheduled cron jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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Step4<\/strong>: Now see a window with all of your scheduled cron jobs.<\/p>\n
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Creating a new cron job<\/strong>
\nStep1<\/strong>:Click create a new scheduled cron job in the top of the cron job list.
\nStep2<\/strong>:The next page nedd to configure cron job.The section is Job Details<\/strong>
\nExecute cron jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n
You must select which unix user to execute the cron job.By click button on the right side,will get full list of all available users on the server.
\nActive?<\/strong><\/p>\n
You can select whether Cron job is active or not.
\nCommand<\/strong><\/p>\n
You will need to write command you want to run periodically.
\ninput to command<\/strong><\/p>\n
This field is optional.It will be fed to the command as input when cron job is executed.
\nDescription<\/strong><\/p>\n
Own cron job description (it is not required) for self reference.<\/p>\n
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Step3<\/strong>:Next section is When to execute.Here you will be able to select when your cron job shoule be executed.There are two options.
\nSimpleSchedule-Select already defined interval from the drop down list.<\/p>\n
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Times and dates selected below-If you choose this option,you will have to configure the cronjob execution times by selecting minutes,hours,days and etc.<\/p>\n
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Step4<\/strong>:The final section is Date Range to Execute.Here you can set date interval if you only need your cron job to run for a week.two weeks or any other time period.<\/p>\n
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Step5<\/strong>:When you have everything configured as you want,to the bottom of the page and click Create.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Step6<\/strong>:If the cron job was setup successfully,you will see it in the list of cron jobs.<\/p>\n
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CRON JOB Cron job is the best way to automate various daily, weekly or even monthly tasks.In this tutorial, we will learn how to set up a cronjob on a server which runs Webmin. Accessing Cron Job Configuration Section in Webmin Step1: Login to your webmin admin panel.You can use by typing https:\/\/your-vps-ip-address:10000 Step2:Choose Webmin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/fe-crontab.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newdelhihosting.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}