Purpose

Cron jobs execute commands automatically on a schedule. Typical uses include framework schedulers, background processing, maintenance tasks and application-specific jobs.

Safe scheduling

• Use the correct website or customer account.
• Use absolute command paths where practical.
• Prevent overlapping jobs when the application cannot safely run concurrently.
• Capture failures in logs.
• Avoid running expensive jobs unnecessarily frequently.

Troubleshooting

If a scheduled job does not run, verify the schedule, executable path, permissions, runtime version and application logs.