I've put what you suggested into my Cron Manager on my HostGator admin
panel but I am receiving an email that says:

TERM environment variable not set.
1

Any ideas? Thank you as always!


On Jan 21, 2:53 am, Martin Westin <[email protected]> wrote:
> You type (paste) something like this into a terminal window:
>
> /path/to/cake/console/cake -app /path/to/cake/app
>
> you then add the name of theshellyou want to run. My cron task is
> called "hourly" as in my previous post.
> When running this as a cron job (= automatically) I have found the
> return from theshellcauses problems so I add " >>/
> dev/null 2>&1 " at the end which swallows any output.
>
> On your Mac you might not want to run it as a cron. But if you do
> there are applications to download that give you a graphical tool to
> set cron jobs (or Apple's replacement as the case may be). The actual
> "cron" tools are aparently now seen av deprecated by Apple (sigh) but
> they are still there.
>
> /Martin
>
> On Jan 20, 2:57 pm,KyleDecot<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm really confused aboutshelltasks. How would I invoke the task? I
> > know that I would use terminal (I'm on a mac) but how would I do this?
> > Second, how do you automate this process so that it would run every
> > hour?
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