Thanks Nitai & Al. I have a decent understanding of cron jobs via the OS but my poorly wordy previous question was in relation to the cron plugin functionality specific to OBD. Reading the docs it states a series of folders are created where we can store .cfm files for execution by the OBD engine outside of the context of a HTTP call. The question was the folders are cron.5min,cron.15min,cron.hourly,cron.daily,cron.weekly,cron.yearly.
My question is are the files saved in the cron.hourly folder executed at the first second of the hour? Should I assume the same behavior for cron.daily executing at 1 second past the start of the day? Hopefully this is a little clearer. Thanks! -JSLucido On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Al Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
