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cronjob [2016/11/17 13:14] admin [What job should be executed for a specific Extension?] |
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| CRON is a service provided by most hosting solutions – including **Godaddy, Dreamhost, Hostgator**, etc... that allows you to run scheduled jobs that perform regular cleanups, backups or other scripts that need to run from time to time.\\ | CRON is a service provided by most hosting solutions – including **Godaddy, Dreamhost, Hostgator**, etc... that allows you to run scheduled jobs that perform regular cleanups, backups or other scripts that need to run from time to time.\\ | ||
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| + | ==== Why do you need a CRON Job? ==== | ||
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| + | CRON jobs are tasks that run at scheduled times, where usually this is a service offered by the hosting provider. These tasks make sure that certain extension tasks run at a specific time. | ||
| + | This way you make sure that for instance your users get the notifications about upcoming expiring auctions or information regarding their watchlists. | ||
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| + | CRON jobs are required to keep an extension working properly. For detailed information about what each component needs a CRON for, check the detailed link at the bottom of this article. | ||
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| + | **Events Factory** | ||
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| + | <code> | ||
| + | lynx -accept_all_cookies –dump 'http://[yoursite]/components/com_eventsfactory/cron_action.php?pass=[yourpass]' | ||
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| + | wget -O - -q 'http://[yoursite]/components/com_eventsfactory/cron_action.php?pass=[yourpass]' | ||
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| + | curl --silent –compressed 'http://[yoursite]/components/com_eventsfactory/cron_action.php?pass=[yourpass]' | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| * jAnswers Factory | * jAnswers Factory | ||
| * Love Factory | * Love Factory | ||
| + | * Events Factory | ||
| * Social Factory | * Social Factory | ||