Cron Jobs

kamakasi

I think this pertains to MySQL ill wait till someone tells me if it does then ill ask my problem

herve

Cron jobs are the way a Unix system do things on a regular basis.

For instance, lauching a script each night à 01:00 AM for backup purpose,
or cleaning temp directory each week, and so on.

There a table ("cron tabs") which tell to the Unix system what to do and when.

Sure your can do "things" with MySQL with cron jobs (like backup database for instance)
but they are not tied together.

HP400

Are you asking if cron jobs are apart of MySQL? Cron jobs run on a Linux build operating system. They are created to run certain programs at certain times and can be run to repeat itself.

kamakasi

does anyone know how to use cron jobs

herve

Look here for instance :

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

dalecosp

HP400 wrote:
Are you asking if cron jobs are apart of MySQL? Cron jobs run on a Linux build operating system. They are created to run certain programs at certain times and can be run to repeat itself.

Now, there; cron is generally attributed to Paul Vixie, and he wrote it before Linus had really started Linux; notwithstanding that there were likely implementations prior to Vixie cron and lost in the mists of history.

So, more correctly and at the risk of becoming pedantic, "most UNIX and Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, run a cron 'daemon' (or server) to execute 'cron jobs' at various times of the day as instructed by a user's 'crontab' file...."

kamakasi wrote:
does anyone know how to use cron jobs

Yes. 😃