Cron jobs

Scheduled tasks (known as cron jobs) can be created and managed via the Cito dashboard, or via SSH.

Via the dashboard

Cron Jobs can be found via the Site settings page, by clicking the right hand menu icon next to a site card, then Settings.

From here you'll be able to view a list of existing cron jobs, and edit or delete them.

To add a new cron, click Add Cron Job. You should fill in the form with a name and the command you wish to run.

Example commands

If you have a PHP file mycron.php in /home/example, you can call it using the following command:

/usr/bin/php /home/example/mycron.php

You can specify the cron expression using our AI generator, or by filling it out manually. The AI generator takes a natural language expression and converts it into cron syntax automatically.

In the example above we've converted "every sunday at 4am" to the cron expression 0 4 * * 0.

Once you have set the cron schedule, you can click Create Cron Job.

Via SSH

You can edit and manage cron jobs via the command line with the crontab command.

Listing existing crons

crontab -l
crontab -l -u <username>

Editing the crontab file

crontab -e -u <username>

Crons should always be run as the relevant user. Do not run crons as admin or root.