Bulk Import Cron Jobs From File?

[waynej]

I see the two ways on cpanel to add cron jobs. But is there a way to obtain the whole crontab file, update it, and resubmit it? Or other way to add a bunch of cron entries?

 

My immediate need is for emailing birthday reminders. Other suggestions of how to send such reminders to a mailing list without advertisements are welcome.

[ThumpAZ]

I see that you posted this a couple days ago, and have not gotten a response.

I, personally, am not sure, but will look into it for you. Maybe, in the meantime, someone else around here can post up with an answer.

 

-GG

[DarqFlare]

Unless there's a CPanel plugin that allows you to do something like that, I don't think you'll have that capability. You usually just have to add in a Cron Job using CPanel's interface.

 

My old webhost last year (June was when I switched) gave us SSH access to edit the cron jobs directly... By that information, I don't think there's any other way to do it than the CPanel interface.

 

I just did a search for a plugin of that nature and came up empty-handed.

[waynej]

Thanks, guys!

[MikeJ]

Yea, I've looked around and the short answer is no on the crontabs.

 

This is something I may even consider messin' with in my spare time to write something better (read: may be a long while )... the cPanel crontab editor isn't the best. It has a bug where if your crontab entry has quotes in it, it will lose the quotes when it reads it back in for editing (so if you modify the crontab at all, you'll lose everything after the first quote for that line). So avoid quotes in your crontab entries.