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host with cron jobs by saralk on 03-18-2005 at 04:19 PM
my friend made an awesome airline simulation game, and i was just wondering if anyone knows some decent hosting service with cron jobs.
RE: host with cron jobs by Dempsey on 03-18-2005 at 04:23 PM
Weird Fish supports cron jobs
RE: host with cron jobs by Ezra on 03-18-2005 at 04:24 PM
What's a cron job?
RE: host with cron jobs by WDZ on 03-18-2005 at 04:28 PM
quote:It's like a scheduled task, but in Linux.
Originally posted by Ezra
What's a cron job?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab
RE: host with cron jobs by Dempsey on 03-18-2005 at 04:31 PM
cron is a *nix daemon to run scheldued tasks it reads from the crontab file. It's often used on server to do scheldued backups for example
RE: host with cron jobs by Ezra on 03-18-2005 at 04:34 PM
Ah, Lycos has those 
RE: host with cron jobs by saralk on 03-18-2005 at 04:43 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Dempsey
Weird Fish supports cron jobs
how often can these be run, there are two cron jobs, that need to be run every hour.
Also, how long is the execution time?