Can anyone give me some good websites and/or book titles that would teach me basic info I can use to learn how to run cron jobs?

It is something that is offered through my web host and I would like to be conversant with it in order to explain it to my clients!

Many Thanks -

Robin Ray

Here's one of many from google http://www.dpg-law.com/solo/LAWebbie_201/C_Unix/1_Cron/cron1.shtml

What worries me though is that you have clients and you are not aware of how cron jobs work.


Lats...

hehe,

He does now lol :D

Thanks for your replies! I appreciate the help in resolving this -

Robin Ray

Yes but does he know about ecron_plus or zsecure or arc-zap or the other truly critical system utils any web hoster must master and offer to clients?

I doubt it.



;)

Yes but does he know about ecron_plus or zsecure or arc-zap or the other truly critical system utils any web hoster must master and offer to clients?

I'm going to take exception to that characterization of Unix/Linux. Unless Robin Ray is personally running the server such utils may never be needed. For that matter cron will be seldom needed by RR's customers. truly critical? must master? Strong words.

As a reseller I don't grant my users shell access. I let them cron in CPanel. I have yet to telco to the shell to stop a runaway process or pickup any dirty laundry. The day may come, then I will, but that will probably be when I run my own server. As resellers we've got all these marvelous interfaces now that keep us from having to "down and dirty" like we did in the 80's.

-- John Sinclair

saltlakejohn -- it was a joke, however subtle.

There are no must have utils called ecron_plus, zsecure or arc-zap.

(any coincidental similarities between these made up applications and any app or util that actually exists is, well, coincidental. Don't bother searching Google for them...)

mike 'prefers % prompts' watkins