Cornjob Commands in cPanel

Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week to free up disk space.

Here are few useful commands for newbie cPanel users, this will help you run scripts at a specific time. Just choose a timing in cPanel “Add new Corn Job” settings and enter following commands in command inputbox, where XXXX is your scripts name, hope it helps.

• Run a PHP script at specific time :
  [cc lang=”text”]
  php /home1/user8/public_html/XXXX.php
  [/cc]
• Set a timing to delete your apache error_log files.
  [cc lang=”text”]
  rm /home1/user8/public_html/error_log
  [/cc]
• Delete all cache files inside cache directory.
  [cc lang=”text”]
  rm /home1/user8/public_html/cache/*
  [/cc]
• Run a shell script.
  [cc lang=”text”]
  /bin/sh /home1/user8/public_html/yourfile.sh
  [/cc]
• Execute a PHP file and save corn errors in a file
  [cc lang=”text”]
  php /home1/user8/public_html/XXXX.php > /home1/user8/public_html/log_file
  [/cc]