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Knowledgebase > Managing Deskpro On-Premise > Installation & Upgrades > Creating cron job on Linux Creating cron job on Linux Christopher Nadeau - 2021-09-02 - Comments (2) - Installation & Upgrades Deskpro requires that the cron.php file is run every minute. NOTE: here's how to set up a Windows Scheduled Task Using the system crontab Edit the /etc/crontab file to add the scheduled task. You need to add a line: * * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /path/to/cron.php Replace www-data with the user you want to run the cron.php file as. Using the user that the webserver runs as is a good choice (www-data is the user that the Apache webserver runs as on most Linux distributions). Replace /usr/bin/php with the path to the command-line php executable on your system. If you're not sure, run which php to check. Replace /path/to/cron.php with the path to where you unzipped the Deskpro files e.g. /var/www/cron.php or /var/www/html/cron.php. Insert into a user crontab You can also edit the crontab as a specific user: crontab -e Then add a line: * * * * * /usr/bin/php /path/to/cron.php Preventing emails The cron system will general email the system user the results of running cron. Once you have cron working you may want to update the command to. * * * * * www-data /usr/bin/php /path/to/cron.php &> /dev/null alternatively, add the following at the top of your crontab to disable mail for all cron tasks. MAILTO="".

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