How to Set an Hourly Cron in Ubuntu Server
Just a quick reminder to myself as to how to set an hourly cron on an Ubuntu Server instance using the standard Crontab mechanism (use...
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How to test if a Crontab is working in Ubuntu
June 15, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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Editing your cron jobs with the crontab -e command will ensure that your crontab is at least syntactically correct, by not installing it unless it...
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How to add a Comment or Remark to a Crontab in Ubuntu
June 8, 2012
by Craig Lotter
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To add a comment or remark in your Ubuntu crontab is trivially easy, following the standard for adding comments already found in bash scripting. In...
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Ubuntu Cron: How to Schedule Your PC to Automatically Shutdown Every Evening
August 10, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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Electricity is expensive at the moment and as such every little bit that you save helps control this cost just that little bit more. However,...
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Ubuntu: How to Add a Cron Job
June 10, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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Scheduled tasks are known as cron jobs in Linux (though you could of course make use of the Gnome Scheduled Tasks tool if you would...
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Ubuntu Crontab: How to Make a Scheduled Task run every couple of Minutes
June 1, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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As a web developer you will always find a use for a scheduled job, something that runs in the background every now and then and...
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Ubuntu: How to Restart the Cron Service
January 5, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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After making changes to your crontab file, be it the sudo or standard version of the file, you will need to restart the appropriate cron...
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Ubuntu: How to Force a Silent Cron
January 4, 2011
by Craig Lotter
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By default, cron actions that produce output generates emails that get sent to the system administrator. If we don't particularly want this behaviour, we need...
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PHP: Optimize and Analyze All Your MySQL Tables
March 19, 2010
by Craig Lotter
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When you start working with sizeable datasets and the like, things like database optimization become more and more important for you to pay attention to.
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WordPress Fix for Schedule Missed Posts
December 23, 2009
by Craig Lotter
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After upgrading successfully to Wordpress 2.9 the other day, I was mortified to find that all of a sudden all of my scheduled posts were...
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