What do I put for the cron job Command to Run?

  • Command lines. Examples only! Bold sections must be changed.

    Command to run for a php5 cron job (with Easy Apache 3):
    php /home/user_name123/public_html/cron.php

    Remote File
    /usr/bin/GET http://www.some-domain.com/file.php

    Command to run a cgi cron job:
    perl /home/username/public_html/cgi-bin/file.pl

    Command to run for a shell script cron job:
    /bin/sh /home/user_name123/public_html/file.sh

    Command to run for a php4 cron job (with Easy Apache 3):
    /usr/local/php4/bin/php /home/user_name123/public_html/cron.php



    SSH Extras

    Command to import database:
    mysql -u mysql_user -ppassword database_name < backup.sql

    Command to export database:
    mysqldump -u mysql_user -ppassword database_name > backup.sql



    OLD COMMANDS
    (may still work for your customer)

    Command to run for a php4 cron job (without Easy Apache 3):
    /usr/bin/php /home/user_name123/public_html/cron.php

    Command to run for a php5 cron job (without Easy Apache 3):
    /usr/local/php5/bin/php5 /home/user_name123/public_html/cron.php

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