This tutorial covers how to setup a Cron job. Cron is a service for executing scheduled commands.
It assumes you have first logged into Virtualmin.
-
Click
Webmin
on the top-left. -
Click
System
. -
Click
Scheduled Cron Jobs
. -
Click
Create a new scheduled cron job
. -
Choose the user to run as, and input the username in
Execute cron job as
. To run as the administrative user, inputroot
. -
Enter the command to run into the
Command
field. For example, if you want to receive a list of all running processes, enterps auxw
for the command. -
Normally, you can skip
Input to command
. That's only used if your command requires input after it begins running. -
Choose how frequently to run your command. By default, it will execute
Hourly
, meaning it will execute at the top of the hour, every hour. -
To enable the Cron job, click
Create
.
Any output will be emailed to the root
user.