Cron Jobs
The Cron jobs scheduling tool enables developers to add, modify, and remove scheduled cron jobs.
Press the [ + ]
button below the list to create a new job. Select a job and click the [ - ]
button to delete the job. This cannot be undone. Be wary of removing jobs you did not create.
Double click a script to edit it in Lifeboat.
Contextual-click (right-click) a script to present a menu with options to Edit, Rename, and Execute the script. Executing a script will prevent all other actions in Lifeboat until the script completes.
Scheduled Execution Time
To check when an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly interval is executed mouse-over the (?)
symbol to the right of the popup menu. Lifeboat will try to explain in plain words when the currently selected interval runs. Click the (?)
to open a reference website for explaining cron schedules.
Advanced users interested in changing the scheduled execution time will need to SSH into the server and adjust the time manually.
More Cron Tools Menu
Below the cron jobs list, to the right of the [ + | - ]
button is a downward triangle ▾
. Click this triangle ▾
to present the additional cron tools menu.