gerkintrigg Posted July 31, 2012 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Hi, I wanted to start this thread to ask what kind of cool things do you / could you do with Cron? We use it to backup our database but that's boring! What else could we do? Examples: Letters from Santa sent on the first day of December Email Auto-Responder (save yourself the AWeber subscription fee) Any others? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/266495-cool-cron-examples/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
phpfreak Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 I like to do backups via cron. */5 * * * * * /scripts/mybackup.sh > /dev/null Party! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/266495-cool-cron-examples/#findComment-1379927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phear46 Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Auto update and shutdown Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/266495-cool-cron-examples/#findComment-1427069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmedic03 Posted June 26, 2013 Share Posted June 26, 2013 make sure services restart if they crash, periodic restart of server, load services on reboot or shortly there after... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/266495-cool-cron-examples/#findComment-1437921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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