Does VirtualMin help me set up cron jobs ?

system · February 4, 2009, 7:28am

When setting up a cron job, can I only set up
unix commands or can I tell the server to run a php.script.

For example: During the day I want to select several people
to send an email to, also I will create the email.
That info will be held in a database.

then once a day I want my sendthem.php to run so that all the meassges get sent. Actually I will limit the sending to say a 30 emails batch.

Each batch can go out with a five minute interval.

The I want to run the sendthem.php script say 20 times starting at
10.00 pm everday ( it will take 1hr 40 mins to do the 20 batches )

Does anyone know where and how I can set this up ?

Does virtualmin help me with this ?

Thanks

Eric · February 4, 2009, 11:05am

Sure, Virtualmin can help out here.

You can setup any command to run from cron that you could run if you were logged in over SSH.

That is, you can run a PHP script from within cron, so long as you could also run that PHP script from the command line.

When you log into Virtualmin as a Virtual Server Owner, there’s an option on the left called “Webmin Modules”. When you click that, you’ll see “Scheduled Cron Jobs”.

You can add a new cron job in there.
-Eric