[drupal-support] Any alternative to using Crontab?

[Rob]

Of the dozens of commands we have tried the most common seems to be
No such file or directory

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carlos Rivero" <serverleader at gmail.com>
To: <drupal-support at drupal.org>; "Rob" <rob at rwneill.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [drupal-support] Any alternative to using Crontab?


did you try to see what error you get when you run it from the command line:

bash$:   php cron.php

On 7/31/05, Rob <rob at rwneill.com> wrote:
> I never have been able to get Crontab to work to update news feeds in
> Drupal. I tried
> dozens of commands, changed permissions, etc. and my hosting company did a
> reinstall
> to be sure there was not a bug. I tried using WebCron.Org which works on 
> one
> site but
> does not seem to work well on another.
>
> Does anyone know of any alternative way to do this such as using some type
> of spidering script?
>
> Rob
>
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