Dreamhost enables cron jobs on Web panel

Dreamhost is a good hosting service and I have been using it for a while (not this site). One of the cool features of dreamhost account is the ability to create scheduled cron jobs using a shell account. This required a bit of “linux” knowledge like using the command “crontab -e”.

Not anymore! Dreamhost panel now contains an option to setup cron jobs directly. Check out the following screenshot from the Web panel,

Dreamhost cron panel

But it is not perfect yet. One problem I came across is that the jobs setup using “crontab -e” doesn’t appear on the Web panel.

Posted under HowTo, Software Tips · May 4, 2007 · 1 Comment 

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One Response to “Dreamhost enables cron jobs on Web panel”
  1. Ajay says:
    May 8, 2007 at 7:40 pm

    cPanel has been offering cron jobs via the Control Panel for quite a while now.
    This is what I don’t like about hosts having their control panel. I always get a cPanel host because of the features and ease of use.

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