Use cron jobs to automate certain commands or scripts on your website.

Typically a cron task has a series of simple tasks that the system

runs from a script file.

1. **Notice:**   You need to have a good knowledge of linux knowledge to use works cron successfully.\
   Check the script with your hosting administrator before adding one cron work.

2. **Notes:**   When scheduling scheduled tasks, if scheduled to run heavily often, they can degrade performance.

   Most scripts that need a cron job will give you instructions on the proper settings of it. When in doubt,\
   check with your script author before insert a new cron job.

3. **Cron Email:**Enter an email address for the system to send notifications whenever your tasks cron runs.

**Common Settings:** Select the time interval you want the cron job to run.\
**Minute:** Minute of each hour you want the run or the number of minutes between each run.

**Time:** The time of each day you want to run the cron job, number of hours between each run.

**Day:** Day of the month you want to run or number of days between each run.

**Month:** Month of the year you want to run the cron job or number of months between each run.

**Weekday:** Select the days of the week on which you want to run the cron job.

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In the Command text box, enter the command to be executed.

Specify the absolute path to the command to run. for example you want to run

the file "public_html/example.php" in your home directory.

**ex:**

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