cron command to run every 12 hours

I need unix cron command to run every 12 hours.

I have 500+ sub blogs in my server.

This is the file i want to run every 12 hours

http://*.mysite.com/somedir/index.php

Where * is my subdomain of my blogs.

I need cron command for all blogs. Is it possible to run all of them with single command? OR do i have to create command for each blog?

A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval.

*     *     *   *    *        command to be executed
-     -     -   -    -
|     |     |   |    |
|     |     |   |    +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
|     |     |   +------- month (1 - 12)
|     |     +--------- day of        month (1 - 31)
|     +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

* in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.

You could use 0 1,13 * * * which means for every 1AM and 1PM.

0 1,13 * * * rm /var/www/*/somedir/index.php > /home/someuser/cronlogs/some.log 2>&1

where * can be replaced by different domain names.

I think the right way is -> 1 */12 * * * (actually, any number in the minute position will do the trick.)

If you set -> * */12 * * * it will be executed every minute at 12h and again at 24h.

Assuming your sites live in /var/www/sitename and you have the php shell installed in /usr/bin/php you can easily create a cron job that runs all those files.

run

> crontab -e

and add this line

42 */12 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/*/somedir/index.php  >> ~/cronjob.log 2>&1

The * here in /var/www/*/somedir is just a wildcart. This means it will catch every directory in your /var/ww folder.

f.ex:

[jens@localhost ~]$ ls -l temp
total 28
-rw-rw-r--. 1 jens jens 1641 Feb 21 16:12 somefile.py
drwxrwxr-x. 2 jens jens 4096 Feb 22 15:10 test
drwxrwxr-x. 2 jens jens 4096 Feb 22 15:10 test2
drwxrwxr-x. 2 jens jens 4096 Feb 22 15:10 test3
drwxr-xr-x. 8 jens jens 4096 Jan 27 10:21 emptydir
-rw-rw-r--. 1 jens jens  548 Jan 27 16:15 Unsaved Document 1

[jens@localhost ~]$ ls temp/*/testfile.php 
temp/test2/testfile.php  temp/test3/testfile.php  temp/test/testfile.php

As you can see, this returns the testfile.php in each subfolder of temp, namely folder test, test2 and test3. Emptydir is also a folder, but since it has no testfile.php in it, nothing willhappen with it.

If your directory structure is arbitrarily deep you can use **

e.g. 42 */12 * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/**/index.php >> ~/cronjob.log 2>&1

Use "*/12" to mean "every 12 hours."

You need some kind of master-script (called by cron), which expands the list of sites, and calls "/usr/bin/php /var/www/*/somedir/index.php", whith the '*' replaced by a list entry. This can be done in a shellscript, a perl or python script, or maybe even a php script. For sh this could be: (untested)

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/subdir/for/cron

LIST="a b c d e f g h i j k l m o p q r s t u v w x y z"

for x in $LIST; do
   /usr/bin/php /var/www/${x}/somedir/index.php 2>$1 > /tmp/${x}.log
done

If it is inconvenient to have the list hardcoded like this, there are other methods: backticks, or read < file_with_all_the_names_in_it

0 */12 * * * means "At minute 0 past every 12th hour."

Check out https://crontab.guru for a nice calculator.

Write command in console > crontab -e

edit with editor (I like nano)

add line

> 0 1,13 * * * php /home/catalog/public_html/crons/index.php

close with

> press ctrl + x

press y then press enter done :)

Check if saved with

> crontab -l

command

if you want to test if it will work test just running it manualy with

> php /home/catalog/public_html/crons/index.php

command

Use this it will Run after each 12 hour

• */12 * * * php /var/www/"Your domain"/cronfile.php

->cron('0 */12 * * *');

This cron will run the scheduler at every 12 hours.