How to Set CRON options

Last Updated for InterWorx-CP version 3.0.1

No special prerequisites.

When there are many users on a system, each with their own crontab file, it may become difficult to manage. By changing the current CRON user using NodeWorx’s CRON interface, you will be able to quickly view the crontabs of each user on the system.

1. Click on the Server menu if it is not already expanded.
2. Click on the ♦    CRON item.
3. You should now be looking at the System CRON Management controls in the main content area.
4. Choose the user whose crontab you would like to edit from the User: drop-down menu.
5. You will now see the chosen user’s crontab, and the various CRON options, in the fields below.
6. Change the option(s) you wish to update to the desired value(s).
7. Click the Update button.
8. You will see the following message at the top of the screen: » Cron variables successfully modified

Choose the desired shell from the dropdown menu. All scripts will be executed with this shell. The default shell is /bin/sh.

The PATH CRON option is similar to setting the shell PATH environment variable. Setting the PATH CRON option sets the directories which will be used in the search path for CRON.

If an email address provided here, any output produced by a cronjob will be emailed to this address.