cron

This command might be useful if you want to auto-generate the Boost module cache files on a Drupal site

wget -r -l4 --spider -D thesite.com http://www.thesite.com

Let's analyse the options...

-r indicates it's recursive (so "follow the links" and look for more than one page)

-l indicates the number of levels we want to recurse. If you are on the first page and you follow a link, you are at level 1. If you follow a link on that last page, you are at level 2, etc

--spider indicates not to download anything (we just want to go through the pages, that's all)

This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/339).

On Debian, an infrastructure is in place in directories /etc/cron.* to extend and improve the crontabs.

Why ?

Usually, crontabs are managed at the user level, which can start crontab -e to edit its own or crontab -l to just list it.