FWIW, I use webmin to set those up, my commands look more like this: wget -O /dev/null http://mydomain.com/mypage.cfm 2> /dev/null
I'd have to research those parameters again, but if memory serves me right: some of that was to silently dispose of the results of the wget command, so your server would call the URL, but not literally "get" the resulting page and store it somewhere every time it ran. HTH, Al On Thursday, October 18, 2012 2:55:50 PM UTC-7, J.Lucido wrote: > > I am finally considering moving an older application which contains a > lot of scheduled tasks over to the CronTab plugin for OBD. I have a > quick question I was hoping could be answered since I do not have much > experience using cron jobs on *nix. Specifically, when are the hourly, > daily, monthly and weekly tasks run? My assumption would at 0:01 for > hourly and 00:00:01 would be the execution time for the daily tasks > and similar for the monthly and weekly. > > The reason I ask is I have a task which needs to run on the first day > of the month within the first hour to gather sales specific > information. Would I be better off running the task the task hourly > and then checking to see what day of the month and what hour it is > currently processing in order to execute my business logic? > > Thanks for the help in advance. > > -JSLucido > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
