Free Hosting With Access To Cron Jobs?
Oct 25, 2008I need a reliable, free host where I can run wget on a URL (less than 1k) every 10 minutes via a cron job.
Can anyone reccommend anything?
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Per Second Cron Jobs?
Apr 5, 2009Hey everyone, my friend's dad is looking for a web host that will allow his cron jobs to run every second. Most hosts apparently dont allow cron jobs faster than 5 seconds apart.
How often a host can run cron jobs isn't really advertised on their sites so I'm having a bit of trouble finding a host. I've resorted to just sending emails to sales addresses asking about it.
Does anyone know how I can find a host like this?
How To Schedual Cron Jobs
Oct 24, 2009I have a number of PHP scripts that I would like to automatically run daily at midnight. I am currently running a VPS server but have no idea how to achieve this. I do have webmin on my sever but am unsure of what command I need to run.
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Jan 5, 2008I have a machine, that for some reason stopped running it's cron jobs for some reason, and I can figure out how to get them working again.
My /etc/crontab file is as follows.
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
Here are the contents of a sample user cron file.
MAILTO="USER"
10 4 * * * php -q -f /home/USER/public_html/tools/updtransfers.php /home/USER/public_html >/dev/null 2>&1
10 5 * * * php -q -f /home/USER/public_html/tools/updateexp.php /home/USER/public_html >/dev/null 2>&1
10 5 * * * php -q -f /home/USER/public_html/tools/invoice_cron.php /home/USER/public_html >/dev/null 2>&1
and another
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -c /home/USER/php.ini /home/USER/public_html/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1
I've checked my logs, and I can find no errors anywhere. When I run the commands manually via SSH, they work perfectly, they simply are not being run automatically the way they are supposed to be.
I have checked, and the crond service is running. I have tried restarting it, but it seams to have no affect. I really have no idea what the issue is. The only thing I seam to have found at one point, was the possibility that the files within the /etc/cron.d directory might be CHMOD'ed wrong, but I haven't found anything to confirm this either way.
[root@server cron.d]# ls -all
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 17 03:07 .
drwx--x--x 94 root root 12288 Jan 3 09:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 Jun 22 2007 csf_update
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 Apr 11 2007 lsm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79 Jun 22 2007 prm
-rw------- 1 root root 366 Feb 23 2007 sa-update
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Jun 22 2007 spri
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188 Nov 16 23:14 sysstat
[root@server cron.d]#
Cron Jobs Failing
Jun 24, 2007I have jobs that fail every now and then. I get this email:
Looking up www.xxxx.com
www.xxxx.com
Making HTTP connection to www.xxxx.com
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access [url]
Alert!: Unable to access document.
lynx: Can't access startfile
Software To Control Cron Jobs?
May 14, 2008Is there any software which would control cron jobs? I've a problem with cpu load where some customers are running more than enough of them at the same time.
Is there any software which would be able to:
If there are more than x crons running at the same time, put others in queue and execute after there are no more than x-1 are running?
How To Schedule Cron Jobs In Windows
Dec 7, 2008how to set cron jobs in window....
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Jun 16, 2008I have a new dedicated server and am trying to set up a cron job via CPanel on on of my accounts (we'll call it "abc" account).
In the Cron job area, where it asks for the command to run, I enter this:
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php
But when the job runs, it doesn't seem to be executing the .php file. Instead, I get stuff like this via email:
/home/acb/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 2: ////////////////////////////: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 3: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 4: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 5: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 6: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 7: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 8: //: is a directory
/home/abc/public_html/forum/class/sendnotice.php: line 9: //: is a directory
So it is as if the cron job is reading each line of the .php file instead of just running it. Am I doing something wrong in setting up the cron job to run that file or could it be a configuration issue with the new server?
Plesk 11.x / Linux :: How To Set Cron Jobs
Dec 24, 2014How I can set CronJobs? Have never to it before.
Here is what i have from developer:
Final Step: Setup Cron Tasks.
Number of cron (background) tasks to ensure redundant files are deleted, accounts are auto downgraded etc. Details of these are below.
0 0 * * * php /var/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/httpdocs/admin/tasks/auto_prune.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 0 * * * php /var/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/httpdocs/admin/tasks/create_internal_notifications.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 * * * * php /var/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/httpdocs/admin/tasks/delete_redundant_files.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
0 0 * * * php /var/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/httpdocs/admin/tasks/downgrade_accounts.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
*/5 * * * * php /var/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/httpdocs/admin/tasks/process_file_queue.cron.php >> /dev/null 2>&1
Cron Jobs And Time Zone Differences
Apr 11, 2009I have a customer billing system.
I would like crons to run at midnight so that the invoices are on schedule and have the right dates etc.
My server is overseas and my time is plus 14 hrs here.
I have set my software up to plus 14 hrs time difference also.
What should I set my crons to?
Determine What Cron Jobs Are Killing Server And When
Jan 8, 2009We're running on Linux/Apache/MySQL/RoR and have a number of cron jobs that run throughout the day on our server. We've been noticing lately that at certain times of the day the site becomes really slow. When I'm online with my engineers I can mention this to them and they can check and see and say "Oh yeah, it's job XYZ that's spiking the server load."
That's great but much of the time when I notice the sluggishness my developers are offline (we're in different time zones). I'm wondering if there's a fairly easy way to track this when they're not online so we can say "Yup, last night at 10 PM your time when you noticed that it was job ABC." There has to be something that allows you to do this right?
Variable Filenames By Date In Cron Jobs
Mar 12, 2008How do you insert variables in cron jobs? e.g. the current date.
Let's say I want to back up a file and append the date to it.
0 0 * * * cp /some/file.txt /some/outputfile_[DATE].txt >/dev/null
(note that I'm not sure the cp will actually work like that, it's just an example)
Where outputfile_[DATE].txt has the date in it.
Are there variables cron can use for date, hour, minute, etc.?
Check What Cron Jobs Have Been Added On The Server?
Feb 21, 2008i find on the certain time,
the mysql of server will run a lot of query,
and the io and load will become very high,
after the time point,
all the io and load with be smoth,
so,i wonder if any Cron job has been add (by certain account) to run something,
Free CGI Access
May 14, 2009I am after a free webhosting site that will let me run cgi scripts... I have tried so many sites that are meant to support these scripts, but none of them work...
Does anyone know of a free site that will let me use cgi?
Free Hosting And Free Domain
Sep 17, 2009Do you think if a company offered free web hosting and free domains people would snap them up like there is no tommorow?
Also does anyone one how much ICANN acredited registrars pay ICANN when they register a new domain?
any feedback would be great!
Free SMTP Access For Email Forwarding?
Jul 24, 2006I have a contact form using .php to forward the contents of the form to my email-ad, but turns out, that something i cant do with my free hosting plan.
i was wondering if anyone knew any services (free) that allow mail forwarding where i can host my .php script together with all associated files and simply link to them from my site?
that would be great! thanks!
(not sure where exactly this post belongs, but it's got something to do with my hosting so im posting it here. if any mods think it should be somewhere else, just move it to where you feel it is appropriate )
Deny Access To Exim For Free Trial Users
Jul 18, 2007INTRODUCTION
As owner of a hosting provider company, I face the problem of abusive users almost every day. More than 90% of all abuse on my server comes from free trial accounts. I offer free trial access to my servers for people who want to try things out before they purchase a hosting package, but off course this attracts spammers. To prevent trial users from using my server for spamming purposes, I modified my exim.pl file to prevent trial users from accessing the Exim mail server.
Please note that this tutorial has been written for cPanel servers. If you want to use it on a server with a different control panel, you'll need to modify the cpgetpack.c source. If you do so, please share your work with the community by posting it in a reply here.
STEP ONE
First you’ll need to download, compile and install my cpgetpack.c application. Here’s how:
Code:
gcc cpgetpack.c -o cpgetpack
mv cpgetpack /usr/bin/
chown cpanel:cpanel /usr/bin/cpgetpack
chmod +s /usr/bin/cpgetpack
STEP TWO
Now open the /etc/exim.pl file in your favorite text editor (make a backup first) and look for the following inside the checkuserpass subroutine:
Code:
$trueowner =~ s////g;
$trueowner =~ s/..//g;
if (isdemo(${trueowner})) {
return('no');
}
Below, paste the following code:
Code:
my $name = getpwuid($uid);
open(UP, "cpgetpack $name|");
my $userplan = <UP>;
close(UP);chop($userplan);
if ($userplan eq "radix_FreeTrial") {
return "no";
}
You will have to replace the radix_FreeTrial string with the package you assign to your trial users. This will prevent trial users from authenticating which prevents them from sending mail remotely.
STEP THREE
Users are now still able to send mail locally (for example using the PHP mail() function), so here’s what to do next.
Find the checkdemo subroutine in the exim.pl file and replace the complete subroutine with:
Code:
sub democheck {
my $uid = Exim::expand_string('$originator_uid');
if (isdemo($uid)) { return 'yes'; }
my $name = getpwuid($uid);
open(UP, "cpgetpack $name|");
my $userplan = <UP>;
close(UP);
chop($userplan);
if ($userplan eq "radix_FreeTrial") {
return 'yes';
}
return 'no';
}
STEP FOUR
Now just restart Exim:
Code:
service exim restart
It might be a good idea to create a trial account and see if it’s working. Enjoy!
REFERENCE:
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Best regards,
Josh Burt
Free Hosting
Nov 28, 2008What does everyone think about free hosting? Is there always a catch or are there really some good free hosting?
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Looking For A Free Hosting
Oct 1, 2007I've made my first website and I'm trying to find web hosting that is free and that it will also allows me to transfer my files through ftp directly through an ftp server. (ftp.example.com)
I've tried using the one for freewebpage.org but it doesn't work.. I tried it using port 21, 22, and 80 in both frontpage and filezilla and they didn't work.. I guess it's the ftp server that isn't really working, or the information they provide is inaccurate.