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Automation Routines
MojoDirectories provides you tools to automate system maintenance processes and
email sending. The tools are "cron.cgi" and "cron_ss.cgi". It is recommended
that you run them once daily either by direct accessing from your browser or
by setting up cron on your server (more information regarding cron setup below).
cron.cgi
- Expires ads
- Expires members
- Sends saved search profiles accumulated the previous day
cron_ss.cgi
- Sends saved search profiles instantly.
Cron Setup
If you have the ability to define cron jobs on your server, you do not need
to manually run the files cron.cgi and cron_ss.cgi from your browser, cron
will send it for you on pre-determined times.
Server Panel
Some hosting accounts let you setup cron routines from the server control panel,
usually "cpanel" server control panel offer this facility.
- Login to your server panel
- Locate and access the cron jobs section.
- Click "advanced button" to access cron manager
- Here you can define when you want the script to run, it is recommended to
run at night, when server load is at its lowest. Enter following values into
the minutes-weekday fields:
15 0 * * *
And in the command field:
/your/server/path/to/cron.cgi
(This means that you want the server to run cron.cgi at 0:15 midnight each day.
Server Shell
Create a blank file with following content with your texteditor and upload it
to your server:
15 0 * * * /your/server/path/to/cron.cgi
(Of course, change /your/server/path/to to your actual server path to the
cron.cgi file, you'll get this info from your hosting company.)
Then login to telnet/SSH and type 'crontab -l' on the prompt to see if there are already
cron jobs loaded. Now change directories so that you are in the same folder as
the 'cronjob' file you just created and uploaded, then load it
into cron by typing following command on the prompt:
crontab cronjob
Then check to see if the job was loaded into cron by typing:
crontab -l
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