Cron job help...

hey there:)
ok so im working on a script that is all cool and stuff and works fine.. but it needs to run every hour... i know that cron can automaticly run the script every hour.. but how?
would it be from a diferent script?
cheers
sir p

Check this answer from the old forums...( I don't feel like re-typing it) :p

http://www.codingforums.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/004755.html

hey,
here's a simple, and short :), tutorial on crontab, http://www.superscripts.com/tutorial/crontab.html

Depending on how your system is setup, you normally do 1. crontab -l > crontabfile.edited 2. edit the file, add a two digit number for the second, a two digit number for the hour, then for the day, month, and day of the week, then the script. It would look something like this

00 * * * * ..../cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi ( this would run every hour on the hour )

finally 3. crontab crontabfile.edited ( this copies crontabfile.edited to the current list of scripts that cron should run )

check and see if you're script got added to the list, crontab -l.

Anyways the tutorial is really good, and does alot better job of explaining than I did.