Tag Archives: cron

Ubuntu: How to Restart the Cron Service

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Craig Lotter

After making changes to your crontab file, be it the sudo or standard version of the file, you will need to restart the appropriate cron service. The command line sequence to achieve this is as follows: Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: How to Force a Silent Cron

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Craig Lotter

By default, cron actions that produce output generates emails that get sent to the system administrator. If we don’t particularly want this behaviour, we need to terminate our function calls with a specific character sequence, which looks as follows: Continue reading →

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PHP: Optimize and Analyze All Your MySQL Tables

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Craig Lotter

When you start working with sizeable datasets and the like, things like database optimization become more and more important for you to pay attention to. Continue reading →

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WordPress Fix for Schedule Missed Posts

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Craig Lotter

After upgrading successfully to Wordpress 2.9 the other day, I was mortified to find that all of a sudden all of my scheduled posts were being missed one after the other, and the only solution to actually force publish them was to hit the Quick Edit option on the posts listing page and change the each post’s status to published. Continue reading →

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