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Hi mods, Just checking if there is something wrong with the cron or my account, my cron jobs keep disappearing minutes after they were created and show 'No cron jobs' at the cron jobs section. Much appreciated if you could look into this soon. Username: konzept

Hi there! I've some questions I haven't found around yet. Sorry if it's duplicate. I'm on Lily Server running asp.net core flawlessly since past year. My Xamarin app is growing up and I'm thinking about adding an automatized service data update since I'm doing this by hand. The point is: there're public server that serves some files (they're no more than 3 megabytes in size) that I wish to download once a day, process and update my database. To do this, I'd develop an specific action in my asp.net core app that would do this job. Please, could you point me if is there any restrictions that heliohost applies to this kind of processing? Assuming there isn't restrictions, is there a way to cron a job on Lily Server that would open asp.net core action, like a web browser does? I hope I've explained what I'm trying to do! Thanks!

Hi, I was looking to setup cron job to run a telegram bot with single personal use. But I am not able to setup cron job for execution. I'm looking to run the cron two times a day. I have not received any email notification thus believe that cron is not running. is there a way to see the running status of cron and errors of cron execution. Please assist me to properly setup the cron to run. Update: I got my cron to work by setting cron time to UTC. I referred an old post and was setting the time to PDT.

Hello, I have set up a cron job in my Tommy account about 1-2 weeks ago and it was working fine as it should until recent days where it has stopped working and not sending any email notification as well. I have only 1 cron job running which only does 1 API call every Mon-Fri (I am aware that only 2 cron jobs are allowed per day). So, I am wondering if I had violated any of the rules or was there an error somewhere causing this cron job not being performed?

Hello, I am new to the site and was looking to do a few things. I have a script that runs on my computer that scrapes the flairs of several subreddits and puts the names of those users in 2 different text files. I was looking around and was having trouble figuring out how to A ) Run my script and B ) Wanted to check with the admins before setting up the cron job. As of currently the script runs on my home computer and it runs on a different web hosting site. username: lustboy email: Packerfan504@gmail.com Server: johnny the script is stored in /home/lustboy/public_html/cgi-bin/gettingUsers.py and a slightly modified version of it is here, removing authentication and specific names https://pastebin.com/WfHtFC4a supposedly I should be able to run it with "http://domain.com/cgi-bin/gettingUsers.py " https://johnny.heliohost.org:REDACTED/cpsessREDACTED/public_html/cgi-bin/gettingUsers.py or https://johnny.heliohost.org:REDACTED/cpsessREDACTED/home/lustboy/public_html/cgi-bin/gettingUsers.py but neither seemed to work. Thanks!

Hello, did anyone succeeded hosting Odoo CRM on Heliohost? I am asking this because I see that Odoo starts 2 cron jobs periodically (once in a second each) and I saw that more than two cron job runs a day are not welcome and I am a bit worried that the account might become suspended if I install Odoo.

Hi, running an app called webtareas that wants a bunch of crons added.. most are once per day or slower, but there is a bunch at a higher rate. Could I get them added to my account - baradhil.heliohost.org - paths are of course assuming an isolated server # run this job every Jan 1st0 0 1 1 * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php initial_workcalendar 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.initial_workcalendar# run these jobs every monday morning0,30 20-23 * * 0 cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php noti_logtime 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.noti_logtime0,30 0-20 * * 1 cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php noti_logtime 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.noti_logtime0,30 20-23 * * 0 cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php noti_orphantask 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.noti_orphantask0,30 0-20 * * 1 cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php noti_orphantask 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.noti_orphantask# run these jobs every day0 8 * * * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php noti_todolist 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.noti_todolist0 0 * * * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php autolockperiods 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.autolockperiods0 0 * * * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php recurring_docs 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.recurring_docs# run these jobs hourly0 * * * * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php import_denyhosts 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.import_denyhosts# run these jobs every 5 minutes*/5 * * * * cd /var/www/html/webtareas/scripts;php send_reminder 2>&1 >> /var/log/webtareas.send_reminder Thanks

Hi, I've just started using the Helio server. So far, everything looks nice. However, I want to use the hosting to create a CRON job, which would collect some stats once a day for a server which is in EST/EDT timezone. I'de like to ask, what time in CRON settings should I use, to run it at 23:59 that server time? Also, will the settings hold after the time for the timezone will change from EST to EDT and vice versa? I'm on the johnny server, if that matters.

I want to run cron job on tommy. The problem is that it downloads 100 mb data and process it. It takes almost 1 minute to process the data on my corei3, machine. Is it ok to run such intensive app through cron job? The job will run once a week.

Hello guys ! First of all, I'm really happy about my Ricky account - it has been working like a charm so far. I however noticed that message in the CronJobs section : Warning: Heliohost only allows two cron executions per day. That means you can run one job every 12 hours, or two jobs every 24 hours. Exceeding this limit will result in your account being suspended. If you need additional cron executions please contact support. Is there a way to uncap it ? (i.e. being able to execute a small php script every 2 minutes that does nothing most of the times). Have a good day/night .

Hi Admin, I am about to deploy a simple application for my personal use which needs to trigger a cron job, which will basically execute a php script every 30 minutes. The basic purpose of the script would be to check into mysql database table, if any message is queued, if found it will send it as an email to a fixed pre-defined email address, if not found any message in the database table, the script will simply exit. Please understand that this wont be a heavy process, with too much load, neither it will take more than a mere 5 seconds at maximum to execute. Request you to grant me permission to run this cron job at ever 30 mins. Awaiting your response.

Good morning everybody, I have a little mysql/cron syntax problem: I have a cron that does my wiki backup as he is told: mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD database2backup > backupfile.sql Works fine. What I want to do now is to create a new backupfile every day and do put the date in the filename. What I tried: mysqldump -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD database2backup > backupfile`date +%y%m%d`.sql I am getting an EOF error which surely means that I am doing something wrong in the date part. Can anybody tell me the right syntax to do this? I tested it on a Fedora Linux machine and that worked. What distribution is running on stevie? There is no way to get on the command line, right? Thanks a lot! seruemme1204

I recently moved to heliohost from another free hosting service. It has been really fabulous experience (apart from the Jhonny issues, but now I am no Stevie ) with the number of domains, subdomains, email accounts that Helio has to offer. The only shortfall so far that I find is the limit of cron jobs (2 per day IMHO is very less). My site really needs to do some database updation, based on a light php script, this needs to be done as frequently as possible, once per 5 minute is what I would be glad to have it run. The script isn't CPU intensive as my previous host never had an issue when I ran this script every 5 minutes there, and they were really strict about the CPU usages. So my question is, is there a way (cron or otherwise) I can run a light weight script every 5 minutes?

Hello, I have created a python script which should be regularly executed at 01:00 AM. Unfortunately, the job is executed or finished at 10:00 AM (I get the notification about executing at this time). The python script only downloads a file from an other site and stores it on heliohost. Does it take so much time to download the file or why is there a delay in execution of cron jobs? Kind Regards J. Z.

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if i post 5 or 6 or more post for Future my site will be suspended? or my site map generator plugin or ... ===== my wordpress use cronjob? please explain how my wordpress site will be suspended without set cron job to cpanel? (wordpress cron jobs and wp-cron is defferent with cron jobs i set in cpanel?) if i use wordpress and not set cron job to cpanel,My Website may be suspended? please explain

Hello again, I was working on a small script that simply sends an email hourly. The script is in php and I set up a cron task to run it hourly using "php -q /home/fletch/public_html/send.php >/dev/null". I save the page, and the task stays, but if I wait a while then go back, the task is no longer there. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Fletch

My understanding from experiences elsewhere is that Cron Jobs are best run during periods of low traffic. I was wondering: Which time periods in UTC have the lowest traffic? I only wish to know this for Johnny, although it might be of benefit to others if Stevie was listed as well (they probably exhibit the same pattern anyways). I will then set up my jobs with those periods in mind.

Hi guys, I read wiki and saw a restriction to run 2 cron tasks a day. Just don't want to violate any rules and before doing smth similar want to ask as there was a reason to make this rule. I have a small mono application that pulls some data from a service, process it and push it back. Very small amount (less than 100k I think). I wanted to run it once per hour. Will it be against the policy? Or there is a way to this? Maybe not run from cron but run an application which will be in memory all the time and once per hour does the task? Thank you, Dmitry