Need help about cron jobs.

[RSA_ASR]

Hello there.


I need help with one cron job. I need change every 2 or 3 hours one file. I try explain:


I have 3 files:

config.php
config2.php
config3.php

I need rename every file each 2 hours

config.php => config2.php
config2.php => config3.php
config3.php => config.php


I don't know how can I make it... if only its possible make with 2 files, then no problem, but I need something like this, and I think this is the way to rename files..

 

[rentaserv.net]

Config File

Hi,

I believe You Would Have To Make A Main Configuration File to Make these changes thn configure the cron in cpanel to run this action every hour or whatever time frame you want.

 

[nerbonne]

Probably better to have three configs, config1, 2, and 3. Then run a cron job every three hours to remove the old link and write a new one to config1. Have three cron jobs on three different hours.

 

[bodhost.com]

Initially try configuration from cPanel to work it out, if not then you will need to setup the cron on the server.

 

[eeadmin]

File names

Do you just need the file names rotated or do you need the files to execute in that order?

 

[DGermancp]

If you have shell access, I think what you want is

1)make a file /home/$USER/rotatephp.sh

mv config.php tmp.php
mv config3.php config.php
mv config2.php config3.php
mv tmp.php config.php

Then

export YYMMDD=`date +"%y%m%d"` #create a variable to uniquely save current crontab
crontab -l > crontab.$YYMMDD # list current crontab ( that's an ell not a eye)
cat > crontab.$YYMMDD <<++ # append what follows to crontab file
07 0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 * * * /home/$USER/rotatephp.sh
++

crontab crontab.$YYMMDD # install new crontab

see http://www.real-world-systems.com/docs/crontab.1.html

Let us know if that's what you need or
If you do not have shell access

 

[bodhost.com]

hmmm...i think that should solve the problem