Dumb Q - What is a cron job?

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Originally Posted by Star Man

So if I have a specific cron set on my server to update at midnight would I have to bug my host again if I suddenly wanted to change the settings?

sometimes. Most of the time cron is in a control panel and can be somewhat easily modified. I think virgohippy has a regular cron call a 'wrapper' that he has decide what needs to be executed -- so that way, his cron entry never changes and he can just modify his script to do whatever actions he requires.

Generally though, cron isn't as difficult as a lot of people make it out to be.