Need cron/time help

[salewit]

I have three questions.

1) When setting up a cron job, what time am I basing it on? The forum here says the time is based on GMT (-8 for PST), but when I post a message in my message forum, the time appears to be at Texas time (Central?). Which is it?

2) I set the cron based on central time and it didn't appear to run. I then set it for GMT and it didn't appear to run. Is there a log or something that will show me when a cron runs or fails to run perhaps with error messages?

3) I set up two crons because I was getting conflicting info in a different message months ago.

0 1 * * * /home/acct/public_html/cgi-bin/script.cgi > /dev/null
0 1 * * * http://domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi > /dev/null

The 2nd one is what the cron page example shows, but in an earlier forum thread, I was told it has to be the 1st format. Which is correct?

Thanks
Sam

[jason]

1. The servers are in Central time because, like you said, they are located in Texas. The time displayed in the forums can be set in the User Panel to display the time zone you are in.

2. I believe that cron jobs are logged to the system log, but with JailShell, I doubt you'll be able to look at it.

3. Either format will work, but you need to add "GET" to the begining of the URL version:

0 1 * * * GET http://domain.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi > /dev/null

Hope this helps.

--Jason