How to set Cron Job on Vultr (Ubuntu Lemp)

i have my website online using lemp and i have written my command to execute but i do not know how to set it on Ubuntu Lemp.

Normally it is easy on shared hosting using Cpanel. Please how do i schedule cron job for everyday by 8pm.

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Assuming your website is run by www-data user

sudo -u www-data crontab -e

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@sinnbeck i am using root user

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To run the website? Is root the owner of all files in laravel? Or do you mean you are just logged in as root?

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@sinnbeck i am logged in as root for my ssh

should i just run the code

sudo -u www-data crontab -e

Best Answer

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Try with runuser instead then

runuser -l www-data -c 'crontab -e'

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