[mcrob]

I was talking with my web hosting company and I may want to get into cron jobs. I want to be able to run the cron job on my localserver. He was telling me that thousands of users are running them on there windows system. I downloaded Lynx from this website http://csant.info/lynx.htm and when I installed it, it doesnt work. So I dont know what to do. How can I run cron jobs?

[digioz]

Did you download Lynx to see how the cron job would function and/or get used to working with text browsers? Why exactly did you download Lynx, and what does it have to do with setting up the actual Cron Job on your web server?

My appologies if I am not understanding something correctly.

[mcrob]

whats up..

I downloaded lynx just for the cron job to be truly honest. And the rest why I downloaded lynx to begin with is because I was told that you should use lynx for running cron jobs. If there are other solutions then that would be awesome.

[mcrob]

Hey not to sound like a bother as anyone ever used a cron job program in a windows OS?

I came across this program:
http://www.visualcron.com/

If anyone has used this, is it similar to the cron job used in linux?

[cistate]

lynx is a text based web browser so this has absolutely nothing to do with running a cron job...sounds like the person you were talking to was talking about linux, the operation system. If you are using linux it's pretty easy to set up a crob job to run your script.

Read this:
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modul...rial&pageid=78

[digioz]

Visual Cron is a GREAT application, assuming that you are willing to pay the $37 for a personal edition, compared to cron jobs on a linux operating system which is essentially free (assuming that you have a linux OS running locally).

But you still don't need lynx to run it though.

[End User]

Originally Posted by cistate

lynx is a text based web browser so this has absolutely nothing to do with running a cron job

Yes and no. Lynx itself has nothing to do with cron jobs, but Lynx can be used by cron to run a script similar to GET. Some hosting providers suggest this as a way of running PHP, PERL, or ASP scripts. I this may have been what they were trying to tell him to do.

[mcrob]

So what should I do. Should I just download the visual cron program and learn from that or should I download lynx??

The problem that I had with Lynx was I downloaded the Lynx program from this website.. http://csant.info/lynx.htm and I installed it just fine. Then the icon appeared in my list so that was cool but as I goto launch the program, it said it couldnt run the application then it closed itself so I tried a couple of times and the problem kept happening so I just simply removed lynx from my computer. All I want to do is learn about running the cron job so I can use my knowledge for further works like a shopping cart. I got a client that wants a shopping cart because he wants to sell computer products. And all I wanted to do is make a code where if the user adds a product to the shopping cart and decides not to come back, I wanted to delete the abdadoned cart from the database if it is older than 10 days. Thats all. Is running a cron job really a big deal for this? My client maybe busy and may not always be on the website so we couldnt do this manually, plus if he needed me to do this I would charge him extra for the service and thats not what he wants to do. So I was suggested to run a cron job so it could do the updates for us and we dont have to worry about anything. Shoot I wish cron job was available when you download the apache server but then I learned that its mostly on a linux OS so thats cool. Does anyone here have any suggestions. Should I just get the visual cron system and learn off that or download lynx? Please reply back.

[mcrob]

Actually should you only setup a cron job if your on a webhosting company. Im assuming its not really neccessary to find a cron job application to run on my localserver.

[hen3rz]

what's a cron job?