creating own cron job

jannoy

is it possible to create own cron job?

i want to run a certain program without manual entry in cpanel cron job.

would it be possible to bypass the cpanel cronjob ?

has any 1 of this already tried this trick?

bubblenut

do mean accessing the server through the terminal and then using the crontab -e command to add new lines into the crontab?

jannoy

thanksss..

could u post me a sample code here ? im gonna experiment here

because the issue in my problem is

a user can execute a program .. by inputting the time

and the admin can execute the whole program by inputting the time also

bubblenut

Ahh, I think I understand, you want to be able to set the crontab from within php (or do something to that effect). Well, if there's a possibility that there will be lots of crontab entrys (which seems to be the case with your scenario) I'd create a little app which controlls these and then just run that app on the crontab at pretty close intervals. Two advantages in this
1. You don't clutter up your crontab. I've got about 30 entries in my crontab most of which are controll apps, if I didn't have these controll apps and just had straight entries in the crontab I'm sure I'd have well over a thousand!!
2. You get a lot more controll over the situation. If you stored all the details in a database you easily do some nice reporting on which scripts are being run when, you could also add extra parameters to scripts if they're being run at certain times.

If you need some help with the specifics please post back with a bit more explination on your problem.
HTH
Bubble

jannoy

is there a way to run the php with a cronjob command itself? and without running the php itself to start the cronjob /

laserlight

Of course, since the crontab can call PHP.

jannoy

but. is there a way that execute a PHP without touching cronjob?

Scenario :

User can input time :

eg. time: 30 minutes
so every 30 minutes it will process whatever the user wants without manual entry in cronjob?

has anyone tried accessing cpanel-cronjob without using the manual?. or bypassing the password (user and admin) for cpanel
so the user entered (whatever the minutes is) can automatically ADd to the cronjob?

bubblenut

That's what I was suggesting in my second post, effectively making a deamon out of your script.
Post some of your code up and I'll make an example, I think that's going to be the easiest way of explaining what I mean.

Cheers
Bubble

jannoy

hhmmm.. I dont have the code yet !

jannoy

hhmmm.. I dont have the code yet !

but i will really appreciate it if you could help me out