Cron Jobs

Cron jobs run as the site user with bash. Manage them in a site's Cron tab; XAXA writes the site user's crontab for you.

Schedule

Use a standard five-field expression or a shortcut:

Expression	Runs
* * * * *	every minute
*/5 * * * *	every 5 minutes
0 3 * * *	daily at 03:00
0 9 * * MON-FRI	weekdays at 09:00 (month and weekday also take names: JAN, SUN)
@hourly, @daily, @weekly, @monthly	shortcuts

Times use the server's timezone, set under Admin → Instance → Timezone.

The command runs exactly as you type it, also on schedule: a % (as in date +%F) needs no escaping, XAXA escapes it in the crontab for you.

Examples

Laravel scheduler:

cd ~/htdocs/example.com && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

WordPress cron (after setting DISABLE_WP_CRON to true):

cd ~/htdocs/example.com && wp cron event run --due-now

Pause and run now

• Pause removes a job from the crontab but keeps it in the panel; Resume puts it back.
• Run now runs the command immediately as the site user, with the same PATH as cron (the site's Node.js/Python version), and shows the exit code and the last 8 KB of output. It stops after 2 minutes.

Notes

• Edit jobs only in the panel; manual crontab -e changes are overwritten on the next save.
• A % in a command means "newline" to cron; the panel escapes it for you, so write it as %.