cronjob

[HH-Steven]

Im not too familiar with cron jobs so could someone tell me what id need to put if i wanted :

/scripts/updatemysqlquota

to run at midnight everyday?

Also, where would i add this cronjob? surely adding it via cpanel wouldnt have the correct permissions for this?

As i said im not too familiar with cronjobs so any help is greatly appreciated.

thanks.

[chirpy]

You'd have to add this as root from the shell prompt via SSH. You need the command:

crontab -e

That should put you into the pico editor. Then add the following line at the top:

0 0 * * * /scripts/updatemysqlquota

Then exit by hitting ctrl-x and then enter. That should now run that script daily at midnight for you.

[damainman]

What would be the purpose of having /scripts/updatemysqlquota run nightly?..Just curious.